Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 9 SBD and 263 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 Jon Jones championship controversy SPOILERS -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 22 SBD

If you are the type of person that waits to stream a fight after it has already happened you should TURN BACK NOW because there are complete fight spoilers just below this next image. source So the controversy sounds pretty familiar because there is always a chance of this happening some would say it is likely any time that a belt is decided by the scorecards in the hands of the judges instead of a submission or KO. Jones ended up retaining the belt on the scorecards but when it was ...

#2 Who Do I Follow on Steem Why? -- by @slobberchops with a current reward of 14 SBD

Like many, I am going to respond to the challenge of theycallmedan, and his Who Do I Follow on Steem Why? incentive. But first heres a small personal message to theycallmedan. I spotted you at SteemFest 4, in that night event place where one could have been murdered while trying to find it. They say a picture paints a thousand words, so I mean this place. You were sat facing starkerz looking especially dark and brooding with visible storm clouds gathering around your head. I want...

#3 Mark Shepard Rise Up And Dance OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO Life In Song 163 -- by @markshepard with a current reward of 13 SBD

a Mark Shepard Rise Up And Dance OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO Life In Song 163 020820 EDIT8 MIX8 This is one of the most significant songs in my catalog. It was written at a time when I was first discovering African music, energy healing and personal mastery work. For me when I learn something new, like the fact that I am not a victim of circumstances, that I am a powerful being who is creating my own reality, it helps to integrate the new ideas, and beliefs by express them in a song. Origin...

#4 The Jobs Farce -- by @taskmaster4450le with a current reward of 12 SBD

I am sure President Trump is full of glee at another outstanding jobs report. For the month of January, more than 225,000 people were added to payrolls. At the same time, we saw the unemployment rate climb, a positive sign since more people entered the job market. This is viewed as a positive for the economy going forward. Having a expanding job market is obviously better than one that is contracting. However, all is not as rosy as it is made out to be. Here is a breakdown of where t...

#5 Comparing three blockchains ! -- by @clixmoney with a current reward of 12 SBD

a In this video I compared between three social blockchains steem, lbry and uptrennd. Ive been on steem more than 2 years and 8 months, in lbry a few months and joined a week ago uptrennd. I see them competitors of steem because the price of their coins is not that far from the price of steem. Steem cots about 20 cents, lbry about 3 cents and uptrennd hit recently 1 cent. I dont worry that much about steem, because we have enough people and applications and communities. But, we shou...

#6 Who do I follow on Steem and why? -- by @steevc with a current reward of 9 SBD

theycallmedan put out this challenge. He asks about the bonds we have built on Steem. He suggests we select three or more people who matter to us. I could list plenty of people. There are a few Steemians I knew before I joined in the real world or on the Tsu social platform, but I have got to know many more in my 3.5 years here. I have met many of them in person at Steemfest or other events. Here are a few of them. detlev, slobberchops and myself at the Steemfest 3 bowling evening. kath...

#7 Update Rewards Cards -- by @kiobot with a current reward of 9 SBD

Context Card stats filters for Splinterlands Rewards Cards Stats Rewards Cards Print Stats Cards By League Cap Card game play stats. Update For those using the rewards cards page since the last update you will have noticed a cosmetic change and additional feature Slight increase in font size. New Color Scheme with the aim easier viewing. Hide Reveal Button for completed cards. The neutrals are standing out as the biggest group of rewards so far As we approach a new set of ...

#8 My Splinterlands Battle With Battle Orca -- by @burn-it-down with a current reward of 8 SBD

a How are you ? I am fine and hopefully you all are also well. Today I am here to share a battle I made using Battle Orca. Now a days I am making videos of battles I made using Reward cards. Every Reward cards have good impact in different rulesets. So, lets discuss about this battle. Battle Orca is a rare reward water monster and also a melee card. It costs only 3 mana but it has no ability. Also it has kinda nice health and damaging power and its a nice card for Little League rules...

#9 Get ready Philippines for another training opportunities for Atomy. -- by @bien with a current reward of 8 SBD

brImage Sourcebr Good day steem Family, Being successful in life is to grab any opportunities that everyones offer now Atomy is offering another opportunities to train you on how to earn and how their products results effectively. Atomi is one of the new rising products that you realy wish in your daily needs, they are offer lots of products like health care, skin care and any beauty and home products. You can now reserve your sits before february 26,2020. With an special guest speaker fr...

#10 In Full Bloom Chiang Mai Flower Festival -- by @artemislives with a current reward of 8 SBD

Watch on 3Speak A City in Full Bloom? It happens here in Northern Thailand, every year in the first weeks of February, when Chiang Mai hosts its famous Flower Festival. Parades, opulent floral displays EVERYwhere and just so much creativity, colour and a sense of beauty and abundance. It s good for the soul to simply wander for hours, eat some great Thai street food, watch a passing parade and bask in the feeling that everything has its time to bloom in its own way, and that er...

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