Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 2190 SBD and 12526 STEEM on post promotions using bid bots or vote selling services. I know bid bots are a controversial topic and it is not up to me to decide if these bots are good or bad. Heck, I'm a bot myself, so who am I to judge? However, I can help you with your own judgment by providing data. Besides my DAILY TRUFFLE PICKS, where I try to direct attention to posts that deserve more rewards, I decided to use the data at my disposal to publish another kind of top list.

Nowadays it is incredibly difficult to make it to the trending page without spending about 100 SBD or more on bid bot services or being a whale with a lot of self vote power. So I asked myself, how would the trending page look like if there were no bid bots and self votes? Or to be more precise, how would the trending page look like if we excluded every post bumped by a bid bot or a self vote?

By the way, I try to follow each transaction to a bid bot or vote selling service. Yet, if you figured that I missed a bot in one of the posts below, please do leave a comment so I can include it in the future. Thanks!

The Top 10 Posts NOT Promoted by Bots

So without further ado, here are the top earning, text based posts (excluding dmania etc.) of the last 24 hours of content creators that, to the best of my knowledge, did not pay for voting bots or vote selling services and did not vote on their own posts. A list of the humble, so to say. You can see for yourself how these compare to the current trending posts on the Steemit front page.

#1 Going to a professional soccer game in Thailand -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 24 SBD

It can be a decent experience I guess. I suppose it would help if you enjoy watching soccer. Unfortunately for me, I dont really but the occasion for this particular game was about more than just the team. While this crowd of 10,000 wouldnt really impress anyone in the UK or USA where they get crowds of 5 to even 10 times that amount for home games, this is kind of a big deal in Thailand. The officials in charge of getting everyone inside the place were woefully unprepared for thi...

#2 Tera PS4 Cons -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 23 SBD

I had previously written about the upsides of this FreetoPlay, FreetoDownload game on the PS4. There are a lot of good aspects of this game to be honest but I think you would need to be interested in fantasy MMOs for it to interest you. source The game functions in the same way that a lot of MMOs do. You start out with very basic skills and gradually they introduce you to more and more of them. The combat is pretty decent and where you happen to be standing during a fight is crucial...

#3 Today in History Famous Hollywood sign finished -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 23 SBD

The year was 1923 and this worldfamous landmark that I personally think is a horrible eyesore the likes of which belongs at a county fair, was dedicated and basically defines that part of Los Angeles. sourcehttpsi2.wp.comhollywoodsign.orgwpcontentuploads201805HSHeaderPhoto2.jpg?fit15002C642ssl1 The sign was originally created as an advertisement gimmick for a realestate development in the area but it became so recognizable that after the project was finished, the sign was left up. The...

#4 Borrowed a 7,000 Euro bicycle -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 23 SBD

When I moved to Chiang Mai in February, I decided to make a life change. I was going to drink less and exercise more. One way that I was able to make this happen was to have a bicycle be my only method of transport and here i am 5 months later and I still ride my bicycle everywhere. This is not the 7,000 Euro bicycle by the way. This is the bike I bought for me. It was around 175 Euros and it is made of steel or lead or moon rocks... i dunno, but it is heavy AF. I have never weigh...

#5 The Stream The Imp vol. 1 -- by @striderpunk with a current reward of 21 SBD

Thoughts swoop down on wings unbroken. A white sheet soaks up words unspoken. Release the bond and let it fly.. The Imp A blank canvas is intimidating.. It can strike fear and paralyze. Deterring the onset of an onslaught. A Deferment of Action defaults to dust settling on stillborn ideas. Conclusions can be just as challenging.. A project started steams ahead on passion and energy but eventually stalls and stales.. It nags for attention but has lost appeal, direction, commitme...

#6 The Stream The Imp vol. 2 -- by @striderpunk with a current reward of 20 SBD

DISCLAIMER This post is part of an ongoing stream of consciousness series. While each part can be enjoyed as a standalone piece, they will be best experienced when read in order. If youd like to read from the beginning, the first part can be found here. The Imp My Life has been a series of successive failures and intermittent successes. Fear of making a mistake or committing to the wrong path has carried me down the current of mediocrity.. No One knows my name, and I barely recogn...

#7 update for beem new vote function in Steem, upvotedownvote fixed, permlink generation improved and whaleshares support fixed -- by @holger80 with a current reward of 20 SBD

n beem is a python library for steem. beem has now 495 unit tests and a coverage of 70 . The current version is 0.20.22. I created a discord channel for answering a question or discussing beem The newest beem version can be installed by pip install U beem or when using conda conda install beem beem can be updated by conda update beem getestimatedblocknum returns results, when a block is missing from beem.blockchain import Blockchain from beem.block import Block from datetime imp...

#8 The Stream The Imp vol. 3 -- by @striderpunk with a current reward of 19 SBD

DISCLAIMER This post is the final part of a stream of consciousness series. While each part can be enjoyed as a standalone piece, they will be best experienced when read in order. If youd like to read from the beginning, the first part can be found here. The Imp An Impish Crutch then perched upon my shoulder, singing its favorite tune of Good Enough until it singed my ears and thoughts.. Whenever expectations grow and a case of restlessness takes hold, He likes to serve up a familiar...

#9 Facebooks recordbreaking 5,000,000,000 fine by FTC actually improved Zuckerbergs net worth.. -- by @striderpunk with a current reward of 19 SBD

Concluding its investigation launched in March 2018 into Facebooks Cambridge Analytica data privacy violations, The Federal Trade Commission has slapped the social media company with a recordbreaking 5 Billion USD fine. A slapon the wrist if you as most financial pundits. While the number of 5 Billion certainly is a hefty sum, and much greater than the 22 million levied against Google in 2012, its actually a mere dropinthebucket when taken into perspective. Facebooks net worth is around ...

#10 Motorcycle Travel Series by velimir Delight Part 749 -- by @velimir with a current reward of 15 SBD

a titlesource ur.com a titlesource ur.com Enjoy! 2019 Velimir Kovai All rights reserved. All images and text published in this post are my original work. I encourage everyone to use own texts, thoughts and images as much as possible. Be yourself and stay yourself. This is a proper way to build steemit.com steem platform. I do not have respect for dishonest authors. Also, bloggers actually DO matter! For good, inspirational read on various subjects follow gavvet For crypt...

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