Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 5304 SBD and 7721 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 Arrival to The Smile of Baekjae Kingdom -- by 
Finally I could see a bunch of rocks on the corner of the steps. It was impressive there was a pine tree on the top of the rock. There was the carved Buddha statues on the surface of the Rock The position where the rock stood was exceptionally wonderful. In this position, it is said that the expression of the statue is changing at morning and evening. This relic was found in 1954 AD. It meant that this statue had slept in this mountain for more than 1500 years. It is mysterio...
#2 Curie Author Showcase October 22nd, 2018 -- by 
In the spirit of Curies mission to promote undiscovered but exceptional content, we wish to use this twice weekly section to provide an author showcase for some of the outstanding authors who received Curie upvotes in past week. Curie curators and reviewers nominate authors for inclusion in this showcase and author approval is sought and attained. For those new to Curie, please follow curie, and join us on Discord Follow curies votes to support the authors. Please consider following o...
#3 testnet.steemd.com now available -- by 
Steemit launched a testnet for HF20 so that upcoming features and changes could be tested ahead of time. It will be used to test upcoming features and hardforks like RC changes and SMTs. Accounts and transactions are mirrored from the main network in an attempt to simulate realworld conditions. The testnet is rebooted often; nothing on it is permanent. More details about the testnet. For developers and testers Ive launched a window into this parallel network. Its provided on an asis basis ...
#4 Dtubesnap 02 Hyper dorks!! -- by 
a Yooww dtubers! One last dtube for tonight! Because hey were so hyper!!! the video was taken earlier today so peace out hehe My kids were too eager to try out the halloween oreos cookies, so I took a dtubesnap earlier while they were eating!!! Oh my goodness!! You should see it if you want to have a good laugh before going to sleep tonight! Hahaha!My little dork was being so silly again! Anyway, goodnight everyone!!! My dorks are already snoring right now I should probably snore...
#5 DTube Snap5 Just Keep Swimming -- by 
a Hello Hello Dtube Steemit Friends, This is my swimmer son who is in competitive swimming. He is on a training routine that has us waking up tooooo early. Right now, he is unable to make all 8 sessions a week, because of school but who knows in the future. He first learnt to swim when he was 8 years old. And he made the squad a couple of years later and has been slowing working his way up. He is now getting ready for a Swim Meet end November. DTube Snap is a nathanmars initiative...
#6 Symmetric vs Asymmetric Encryption -- by 
When a message is encrypted, it is combined with a special key to form ciphertext. Without the key, it becomes extremely difficult to decrypt the data. Encryption algorithms have gotten very sophisticated in recent years, to the point where the universe would end before conventional methods could break modern encryption codes. The encryption used to protect files, messages and drives is called symmetric cryptography, and as the keys get larger, the difficulty of breaking them becomes exponen...
#7 Roasted and Glazed Brussel Sprouts -- by
I have never been a huge fan of brussel sprouts. I always found them bland yet still capable of leaving a rotten after taste. However, as I tried more variations in preparation, I realized that they could be tender little florets of flavor. I also came to the conclusion that roasting them, brings out a sweetness that I havent experienced in steamed or fried brussel sprouts. So for those of you who loathe brussel sprouts, I urge you to give this recipe a try. It might just change your opini...
#8 The Sandia Mountains in October -- by
Autumn here in New Mexico is so different than the autumns in Virginia that I had gotten used to. For one thing, the temperature is still wonderfully warm most days in Albuquerque, today we enjoyed temperatures in the high sixties, while the little Virginia town we lived in is much colder at 36. While I do love the warm, sunshine filled days, I do miss the vibrant colors of autumn back east. I miss the maples burgeoning with vibrant red leaves, the tangerine and scarlet of dogwoods and oak...
#9 Girls Coding Kosova -- by 
Girls Coding Kosovas mission is to encourage women to reach their full academic and professional potential in technical fields. Its network spans across all municipalities in Kosovo and includes over one hundred 1000 active young members aged between fifteen 15 and twentyfive 25. GCK is constantly working on bringing events to the young and enthusiasts girls of Kosovo to encourage them to code, launch companies or work as developers in other exciting startups in the country. Our mission is...
#10 Optunia Prickly Pear Cactus -- by
OPUNTIA THE PRICKLY PEAR CACTUS QUINTESSENTIAL CACTUS OF THE NEW MEXICAN HIGH DESERT Along with the Cane Cholla, the Prickly Pear is the most common kind of cactus seen around Albuquerque and New Mexico as a whole. Called Nopal in Mexico, the Optunia genus has hundreds of species spread across the Americas which have been prized for food and medicine for people and animals alike. After the Spanish brought it back to Europe, the cactus spread around the Mediterranean as well.Named for their...
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