Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 28 SBD and 167 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 The diary game 2092020. First day at work. Other challeges included. -- by @beautychicks with a current reward of 30 SBD

The diary has kicked off again after the few days break. Ive not been a constant participants due to many reasons, but Im always trying to fit in as the case may be, and Ive been encouraging my group to keep posting. At least, three apart from me has been active. Waking up to see the light of the day is a blessing. Whenever I go to bed at night, my mindset is always like What if you dont wake the next day , so I always amend my ways and pray for forgiveness before closing my eyes. I do...

#2 WE WILL SEE MANY MORE OF THESE SCARY EVENTS! -- by @lukewearechange with a current reward of 16 SBD

You know whats scarier than a Patriot Prayer Trump supporter being shot twice in the street in Portland And assassinated by someone who announced he is 100 Antifa Who allegedly took a loaded gun to protests previously. The scarier thing is that this is just the beginning. This kind of violence is going to keep happening. In the video above, I go over what we know about the Portland shooting suspect and the huge propaganda effort to confuse you about whats happening. But I also go ove...

#3 JOE ROGAN VS SPOTIFY CENSORSHIP! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON AND NOW WE HAVE WHITE LATINOS? -- by @lukewearechange with a current reward of 12 SBD

In the video above, I cover a theory about Joe Rogan potentially wanting to step aside from a position of power. And how that could be behind his move from YouTube to Spotify. Which was supposed to put an end to the censorship. But hasnt. Weve got news that some controversial Rogan podcasts have not been transferred over and are not available in the Spotify library. Something Rogan said would not happen. So is this a soft exit for Joe Rogan and his career? We dont know. But its creati...

#4 Smart Wallet Dharma Surrender Free Gas Not Sustainable -- by @tomoyan with a current reward of 10 SBD

The Best part of Dharma smart wallet was the Free Gas Fee and they couldnt handle the fee any more due to the ETH high gas price. I thought Tether USDT was moving to OMG Network and stopped gobbling gas so much that the transaction fee would go down... but it didnt work that way. Price went up almost doubled and it is close to 500 GWEI today. And Dharma wallet quit supporting free gas. Dharma twitter Well, they actually implemented something called Surge Fee. Basically what it is is th...

#5 THE DIARY GAME THE1000DAYSOFSTEEM 02092020 MY DAY 18 DIARY ENTRY njiatanga -- by @njiatanga with a current reward of 8 SBD

INTRODUCTION Hello fellow steemians, i salute you all and i hope you all are blessfully receiving grace where ever you are in the world. I most say the host and organizer of this great contest have done a wonderful job this far, kiwiscanfly and steemitblog we say thank you. Being on the diary game each day has really been so exciting to me personally and i wont wanna miss a day. I just enjoy reading through lots of nice diary entries from steemians all over. While i love reading, i enjo...

#6 The Diary Game 01092020 23rd diary entry -- by @neerajkr03 with a current reward of 8 SBD

Tuesday 01st September 2020 More focused on health, Working day, Contests on Steemit and Food I am very excited to write diary posts again after the midseason break. I woke up at around 815 am, changed my alarm time from today. I started with my morning routine activity. I went for jogging within my apartment compound after a long time, covered 1 kilometer only, and felt Breathlessness so I stopped and started walking after few minutes and came back home. I realized that my ability t...

#7 btc was reversed by the dollar rising93 -- by @jhdklk853 with a current reward of 8 SBD

Bitcoin, starting at 11936 92 0000, UTC0, hit the low of 11165, peaked at 11957 and closed at 11,39992 2400, UTC0. Bitcoin took sideways without volume after the market started, then began to decline from 0600, reaching a low of 11165 at 1115. Ethereum also broke through the 15minute chart of 100MA 469, which had been supported since 828, from 1000 to the low of 417, falling 12.4 in one day. The main reason is the reversal of economic indicators that have been favorable to cryptocurrency, s...

#8 I am pleased to announce the x16 lucky Users going through to the 25 SBD Cash Prize for helping to promote the Spud4Steem event. Winners announced later today. -- by @stephenkendal with a current reward of 6 SBD

PromoSteem Promoting Steem Event around the around Spud4Steem PromoSteem Promoting Spud4Steem I am pleased to announce the x16 lucky Users going through to the 25 SBD Cash Prize for helping to promote the Spud4Steem event. The x16 lucky Users are adeljose, alokkumar121, cripto2000, genomil, goldcoin, hive161809, jacorv, kiwijacobgo, lanzjoseg, oishe, oppongk, randulakoralage, rexsumon, rokhani, sayago and tocho2. To help support kiwiscanfly with the Spud4Steem event I will be on...

#9 As one of the Proud Sponsors of the spud4steem event organised by kiwiscanfly I am pleased to announce the Winners of the 25 SBD Bonus Cash Prize. Congratulations to rexsumon, oppongk and tocho2. -- by @stephenkendal with a current reward of 4 SBD

PromoSteem Promoting the spud4steem event organised by kiwiscanfly Announcement of the Bonus Cash Prize Winners PromoSteem Promoting the spud4steem event As one of the Proud Sponsors of the spud4steem event organised by kiwiscanfly I am pleased to announce the Winners of the 25 SBD Bonus Cash Prize. Winners Prize Money for the spud4steem event With an overwhelming support for the event once again, I am pleased to announce the Final Winners. The Winners are.... Cash Prize 15 SB...

#10 Focus Stacking Tutorial Part 2 Preparing Insects -- by @brianhphotos with a current reward of 4 SBD

Click on the images to view at higher resolution Main image taken with the Olympus EM1 III and 60mm macro lens extension tubes and 2x converter Stacked with Zerene Stacker Edited with Capture One and Aurora HDR The purpose of this post is to show you how I catch and prepare my flying insects, ready for photographing. When taking a stack of shots that will be used for focus stacking it is crucial that your subject does not move during the time it takes from the first shot to the las...

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