Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 1245 SBD and 11165 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 Looking at the Seasoning Sauce Crocks Near the Monks Resident Place in Whaeomsa Temple -- by 
After passing through the 4 Heaven Kings Gate, I saw the gate which Ive never heard before. The name of the gate was Sangwangmun, which meant Elephant King Gate. The appearance was not special, but the name itself looked special. Entering into the gate, I noticed that this was the resident place for the monks. Usually this private spaces were forbidden to ordinary people. But when the gate is opened, it is as same as the permission of entering into. There was a monk spreading his washing...
#2 Sleeping too little or sleeping too much? Both will affect your cognitive functioning -- by 
We all know how sleeping is important and having too little sleep affects our cognitive functioning. We have trouble with concentrating and focusing, remembering things, our body is slower and lacks energy, our health suffers, and we are all in all pretty cranky. I dont know about you, but I sure am. Recent research shows how having too much sleep, surprisingly, has the same effect on us. Just as you can have too little sleep, you can have too much of it too. How long do you sleep and do yo...
#3 Awesome random encounter in NYC -- by 
I appreciate art... not all of it... i hate most modern art and i guess i am not in touch enough to understand why something that looks like someones toddler got a hold of a jar of ketchup can be worth millions of dollars. However, that is another story. I was walking back from picking up my new passport which was an awesome, effortless experience despite the fact that all of these poor people are working on the day after Thanksgiving when i turned a corner and encountered a massive work o...
#4 Join Us For Ayahuasca, DMT And Peyote At Anarchapulco 2019 -- by 
The most world changing event is, without a doubt, Anarchapulco in Mexico by the DollarVigilante aka JeffBerwick. I have attended the event in 2018 with my father and both of us were blown away by the people, the topics and the general experience. Half of the attendees were on Steem and we met illucifer, chickencaam aka stateofanarchy, lukestokes, lukewearechange, pressfortruth, joshsigurdson, benswann, terrybrock, kennyskitchen, encryptdcouple, luzcypher and many more. Next year there ...
#5 Desert Landscape Gifs -- by 
We love to take little cruises through various landscapes and note how the land differs from what we are used to. Though we live in a nearby desert, the desert of New Mexico is vastly different from the one in Arizona. For one thing, Arizona is located in the Sonoran desert, New Mexico lies on the northern edge of the Chihuahua desert. While both boast beautiful, lowwater vegetation, and some similar plants, the Sonoran desert is the only place in the world where the uniquely beautiful, ...
#6 The Perch Chandler, Arizona -- by
This evening we had the pleasure of enjoying a drink in the company of dozens of tropical birds, macaws, parakeets, parrots, and more. The funny thing is, we werent in the tropics. Nowhere near a rainforest, and we certainly werent in a pet store. In fact, we were in the desert. In a little suburb of Phoenix, Arizona called Chandler. Chandler, Arizona is home to one of the more imaginative brew pubs Ive ever been to, The Perch. The Perch not only brews and serves their own delicious reci...
#7 A Users Guide to Cheating Death TV show Fantastic program that might hurt some feelings -- by
Do you know someone that believes in astrology? How about someone that is into chakra stones or whatever that is called. How about someone that is into the latest and greatest detoxifying juice cleanse? This TV show i discovered today tackles the issues of our constant pursuit of youth world and the lies that exist inside of it but it could hurt peoples feelings. Timothy Caulfield brings together medical experts and also experts from the very things that he is attempting to expose a...
#8 OcotilloCoachwhip -- by
Driving up into the wilderness of Phoenixs South Mountain today, we were treated to beautiful views of the surrounding valley and distant mountain peaks, as well as a strange reeflike landscape of saguaro, barrel cactus and the Dr. Seussesque Ocotillos growing in a variety of trippy formations. Fouquieria splendens is also commonly known as candlewood, desert coral, and vine cactus, though it is not a true cactus. This plant is native to the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. Coach...
#9 Road Trip ABQ to Phoenix via 60 -- by
We came down here from Albuquerque to visit family for Thanksgiving. I always love the drive down, and i try to take a different route each time, to see the beautiful, rugged and mostly empty landscapes of the Southwest. Western New Mexico Eastern Arizona is barely populated, with most of the land set aside for Native Reservations and National Parks. This time we turned off I25 before Grants, NM, skimming through the stunning cliffs and lava fields of El Malpais eastern borders, be...
#10 A simple plan film fantastic movie many skipped -- by
Ive been thinking a lot about Billy Bob Thornton lately because I am watching season 1 of Fargo and am still in awe at how someone as small as Thornton could be so intimidating. I mean, he really nails it. I hadnt really ever paid the man much attention but he is a really fantastic actor. Enter A Simple Plan This movie lost money and I suppose we are going to have to chalk that up to how difficult it could be to market a film like this. It is tough to make it look exciting without ...
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