Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 440 SBD and 11920 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 AGFAcademy Drill 3; The Volley -- by 
Hello everyone, this is team Andre and we are delighted to introduce to you another drill from the Andre Gray Football Coaching Academy; the first decentralized football coaching academy that leverages on the STEEM Blockchain. This drill is basically the continuation of the last drill we uploaded on AGFAcademy. If you didnt see the previous drills especially the first drill kindly visit the AGFAcademy website for that before you proceed to practice this new one. The volley kick is o...
#2 At Ruined Traditional Pavilion of Confucianism in Korea -- by 
It was ruined pavilion what I noticed its being on the way to some very famous Buddhist temple. It was irony I found Confucius Pavilion on the way to going to the Buddhist temple. The pavilion stood on the hill by the way to Gunwee where was located in Gyeongsangbukdo province in South Korea. Korean traditional culture could be said the mixture of Buddhism and Confucianism, in my view. I found the pavilion from far away. As soon as seeing that pavilion, it made me suppose this area w...
#3 Open Source SkyBlock Minecraft Addon New features 2 -- by 
Hello steemians and minecraft players, I added the last couple of days some new features to SKYBLOCK.SK, since people are really demanding and want new features FAST, Im a little bit stressed out these days... But now, I want to show the new things I added to SKYBLOCK.SK, a fully customizeable SkyBlock experience for server operators to use without any Java knowledge. Licensed under the MIT license. People really want new stuff, thats why I didnt fix all bugs and rather added new enhan...
#4 Why the Raspberry Pi makes a great Christmas gift for kids -- by 
A Raspberry Pi is a 35 or less depending on model complete all in one computer. Just add keyboardmouse and monitor in many cases you dont even need this. The Raspberry Pi is commonly used for maker do it yourself projects and robotics. I wrote a post a while ago introducing the Raspberry Pi which I recommend checking out if you are not familiar with the Pi. The Raspberry Pi is small, powerful, powered by open source software, and relatively easy to use. I have more than ten 10 Raspb...
#5 Common Crow Butterfly. -- by 
Common Crow Butterfly. This butterfly is called Common Crow Euploea Core and they are found in many Brisbane gardens. They are also referred to as the Common Indian Crow in India and they belong to the Crow and Tiger subfamily Danainae. The Common Crow feed on oleander flowers and figs. The caterpillars are boldly striped and have four pairs of tentacles. The pupa are spectacular, with their shiny metallic silver or gold colours as they hang, suspended from leaves. Being so num...
#6 The edge of Bedever -- by 
Christmas is coming. Did you know? I have been opening advent calendars for over a week now and I have so many that it is almost a full time job just to get all those windows open. There are some pretty cool ones though and they are tailored for me. I have two that have little books inside of them, how cool is that? One is the Moomins which is kept at Mummi and Pappas place and I get to open them when I am there and the other is Herra Hakkarainen, one of my favourites, as you might remember....
#7 CorianderCilantro -- by 
Well, I just realized cilantro and coriander are the same thing. HUH! Obviously it is my wife who writes all of the cookingrelated posts! In Britain Australia and other English speaking countries, the leaves of the herb are called coriander, while here in the US, we use the Spanish more often cilantro. Many people love cilantro, but that is thanks to a quirk in genetics that allows a certain flavorchemical profile to be broken down. To quite a few people without this inherited trait, cilan...
#8 Introducing Andre Grays Football Academy! -- by 
Soccer is one of the worlds most popular games. It creates excitement among the public with over 265 million players around the world. It is commonly assumed that 90 of the soccer lovers play this game, however, a very big percentage of the players lack coaches to improve their skills. Andre Grays Football Coaching Academy is here to give lessons as well as prize players for ongoing improvements in their soccer game, YAY! Amazing isnt it? Let us explore the brass tacks of the Academy. ...
#9 Lemon Buttercream -- by
altLemon, Fruit, Yellow, Wood, Sour, Citrus Fruits Tangy and sweet, lemon buttercream is my favorite buttercream. You will be shocked how well this pairs with almost any flavor cake. Strawberry cake with lemon buttercream tastes like pink lemonade. Gingerbread cake with lemon buttercream taste like a citrusy, spicy holiday. However you pair this buttercream, youll be sure to enjoy it. Ingredients 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature 4 cups powdered sugar cup heavy cream juice o...
#10 Upsidedown tree exhibit -- by 
There is art popping up all around Krabi as the town attempts to rebrand itself as a artistic destination a notion that I am definitely for and exhibits pop up all over the place on a regular basis. The initiative is called BiennLe and I guess that means something. Here is the one I noticed today while taking the doggo for a walk. If that looks like a bunch of uprooted trees turned on their heads that is only because that is exactly what it is. I guess that is art. Someone once sa...
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