Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 32 SBD and 422 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 caves of Captain Kidd on the shores of Cape south coast of Africa? -- by @julianhorack with a current reward of 21 SBD

a The caves of Captain Kidd on the shores of Cape south coast of Africa? on TravelFeed.io for the best experiencehr Welcome to another edition of The Shape of The Cape with your tour guide Julescape. The more I explore these vast untrammeled shores of the southernmost African coastline, the more impressive and aweinspiring they become. Today I have found one of my biggest finds yet in this lovely region of South Africa called the Garden Route. I have found some real caves and the chance...

#2 BTC This market is so hot right now, not even Washington could derail it! -- by @jrcornel with a current reward of 14 SBD

Bitcoin is up roughly 45 on the year thus far, altcoins are up even more. Things couldnt really look much more bullish than they do right now. Even steem is up close to 2.5x from its lows! Given that backdrop, it was fitting that the Treasury Secretary would go on TV today and talk about how they are about to bring out some heavy handed crypto regulations. More about that can be seen here Well, it just kept chugging along. As I type bitcoin is inching up towards 10,500. Which is t...

#3 Whats your steem selling price? -- by @paulag with a current reward of 11 SBD

Last week ab2345 pointed out the rise in the price of steem to me in a comment on discord. ;When I looked my reaction was something on the lines of mehhhhhhhhh like 20 miserable cents. ;You see when I started on steem in 2017 the price had already hit 2. And there are many more existing users that started while the price was above this. width960 height663 a After the crazy bull run and the price went below 2, I started to buy. ;Prices were the lowest I had seen it and took it as a barga...

#4 Way to Home Wednesday Walk -- by @priyanarc with a current reward of 10 SBD

The maximum time I go outside because of some work, because its winter and I love to stay home, warm and cozy. There are several reasons why I avoid winter. The most important reason is I dont want to be sick, I take proper precautions before going out but still, I cant cope up with temperature differences. We are having snow here, heavy snowfall after a long time. I was expecting that December 2019 would be like this but we ended up the snowy morning in February 2020. Well, every week ...

#5 Various Preparations That We Do For Organizing Events -- by @ponpase with a current reward of 10 SBD

The implementation of the Joint Training which was carried out for 3 days is inseparable from the participation of all parties who have assisted the implementation. In advance, about one month before the event, we had coordinated with various parties. There are many things that we discussed, of course the hope is to ask for their support. Great people whose souls naturally respond well. We are very fortunate to have cooperative partners. Coordination starts at the regional district...

#6 Lightning Word WriteUp RESILE a 99 word story -- by @merej99 with a current reward of 9 SBD

The Lightning Round WriteUp is a daily writing challenge in the Whaleshares Apostrophe writing pod, that uses the MerriamWebster word of the day. Here is my submission for the 12th of February, 2020 ninetyninewords story. !Meredith Loughran blogs on Whaleshares and Steemit, Writing community, WOTD, flash fiction source Loni didnt understand why everyone sat around the room pretending they were sad or respectful of a woman they failed to visit or care about when she was alive. Most of t...

#7 Dolphin status and a contest! -- by @thekittygirl with a current reward of 9 SBD

source Twentynine months ago, I joined the Steem blockchain in September, 2017. Since then, I have been dreaming of the day when I would finally have enough SteemPower SP in my wallet to be classified as a Dolphin. That time has come, as I surpassed the 5000 SP mark today! Of course, what is really important about this is! that I have achieved another level on the blockchain that might allow me to help others by having a bigger upvote! Onward and upward! So, to help cel...

#8 Steem commitment rewarded I became an Orca! -- by @arcange with a current reward of 8 SBD

After several years of commitment to the Steem blockchain, I finally became an orca! I am quite proud of this result because, to be honest, I am more of a worker than a blogger. Whats more, I tend to be discreet about my private life, so I do not share pictures of cats or of what I eat last night at the restaurant. And when I travel, I prefer to store memories in my brain than on the blockchain. It is therefore thanks to a few posts I made about my work as a developer or as a witness th...

#9 Bitcoin Hits 10K , Bitcoin SV Apps, Lightning Labs, and Privacy Scares -- by @cryptoramble with a current reward of 7 SBD

a Bitcoin sustains above 10K price point; Bitcoin SV has got some interesting apps; Lightning Labs is taking off for Bitcoin Cores solution to the scaling problem; and there are some privacy scares that we should keep aware of! In other words, theres a lot to talk about! httpssg.finance.yahoo.comnewslig... Get my book, The Privacy Coin Guide, to learn all about privacy coins and how they work Or buy it anonymously from the Particl Marketplace Also available as a podcast. Se...

#10 Ulog284 Wednesdaywalk by tattoodjay A short walk in our place, Baguio City -- by @sgbonus with a current reward of 7 SBD

It was a very beautiful day today, the sun was up and shining. I went outside for a while to take photos of some of the plants that were here in our house. As soon as I went out this was the first flower that I saw, I asked my mom what was the flower and she said that it was a Pumpkin blossom. According to this website, this flower is an excellent source of Vitamin C, folate and other nutrients. You could even use it for salads,this made me curious on what it tastes. I our backyard we have...

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