Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes

In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 702 SBD and 7682 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 Bitcoin has a strong breakthrough of 50,000 US dollars, and MicroStrategy announced that it will raise another 690 million US dollars to buy more bitcoins -- by @crypto.news123 with a current reward of 42 SBD

MicroStrategy, a business intelligence company, announced on Tuesday that it plans to raise another 690 million in the form of priority convertible bonds to buy more bitcoins. Priority convertible bonds are debt guarantees that can be converted into cash or stocks, which will help to improve the returns. MicroStrategys bills will be issued to qualified institutional buyers, and its terms have not yet been finalized. MicroStrategy intends to use the net proceeds from bill sales to purcha...

#2 DeFi research report BTCDefi track inventory 2021 most worth decoding wealth blueprint 1 -- by @onlooker007 with a current reward of 39 SBD

We also believe that there are many people of insight outside the circle, including the elites in the political and business circles, including the backbone of the traditional financial industries. You should also be full of curiosity about BTCDeFi, because if you cant find your own place here, I am afraid there is nothing to play in the future ... Therefore, we believe that the blockchain is bound to go out of the circle and start from BTCDeFi, because this matter is of great importance ...

#3 Lionel Messis contract at Barcelona was made public earlier this month -- by @sabbir004 with a current reward of 37 SBD

Lionel Messis contract at Barcelona was made public earlier this month and it remains unclear how the information came into the public sphere. The full details of Messis contract at the Camp Nou were revealed earlier this month by a report in El Mundo and has dominated Barcelona news in the weeks since. Now attention is switching to who could potentially have leaked the details of the deal, but the clubs interim president Carlos Tusquets has denied that he nor anyone else in the clubs board...

#4 Looking for happiness in life -- by @luckyerr with a current reward of 35 SBD

Happiness is the true reaction of a persons joyful process. Everyone wants to be happy. However, in the real society, there are pains of one kind or another accompanying us. This requires us to have a normal heart, tolerate the sufferings in life, look down on the disputes in the world and look for happiness in life. A man heard of a famous optimist, so he went to visit the optimist. The optimist cheerfully asked him to sit down and politely helped him solve his troubles. If you dont have...

#5 THE DIARY GAME SEASON 3 20210215 Im home today lol -- by @fombae with a current reward of 35 SBD

Its another new day. Due to late night while watching movies with the family. I overslept that I got up late. It was 9 am, and I reach my boss. To notify him that I will not be able to be at work. Funtuanatly he was okay and accepted my permission to stay home and get some rest. Well, stay home with the kids. Its just having a good time with them and not having a rest. In another sense, Im having a rest from office work. My wife went out to see if she could get something she will cook for...

#6 My Love Story -- by @fitrii with a current reward of 35 SBD

At first, I thought I could condition my mother. Thats why I took the time to find a gap to condition him to accept you, so that I am pleased with my decision to choose you. But it turned out that my mother still insisted on setting me up with her best friends child. I want to live happily with you. But I also dont want our happiness to trouble other people, especially that person is my own mother. Theres no way we can elope, right? Theres no way we can get married without parental b...

#7 You must speak logically -- by @everythingelse with a current reward of 34 SBD

With rich and realistic ideological content, we only have the basic conditions for beautiful eloquence. These thoughts should be logically sorted out before they can be conveyed orally. Communicating with people and thinking is actually the process of sorting out and conveying the feelings and inner consciousness from the bottom of my heart to others, and it is also a process of thinking with your head and thinking abstractly. Therefore, a persons ability of abstract thinking will largel...

#8 Photography of Love and Friendship -- by @juichi with a current reward of 34 SBD

Hola Amigos, Amigas! Hola Comunidad de Steemit. Como Estas? I am proud to introduce to you my best friend here in Japan. His name is James, He is a black American. He works as an Air Force in the American Airbase. Even though we are in different nationality but our bond still strong between us, because we are real and understand each other. We are a living proof that friendship chooses no skin color and race. That is the most important in any friendship. It is hard to find someone who...

#9 Lala Land 2016 Life is a continuation of joy and festivals -- by @vision-of-esca with a current reward of 33 SBD

The winters in LA are not as mild as we often think of. No, it was over mild and even recorded 28 degrees in the movie, so it is quite muggy. Like this hot weather, the congestion situation on LA 105, the first scene of lt;Lara Landgt;, only seems frustrating. On this stuffy road, drivers are comforting boredom with their own rhythm to their own music in their cars. And, soon one piece of music overwrites all other music. A woman sings her first love story with a cheerful keyboard sound. T...

#10 CryptoAcademy Week 2 Homework by gbenga Cryptocurrency Exchanges and cryptocurrency market capitalization. Homework written by chinmapost power up 100 -- by @chinma with a current reward of 33 SBD

source Homework Task Will you keep your crypto assets in a wallet or on an exchange? Make a post to why you would prefer to keep your asset in one over the other. My Position As a new user to the world of crypto currency, I would choose to save my assets with the centralized exchange platform. My reasons are given below I. Ease of withdrawal of my assets in Fiat High Liquidity Source As a non heavy trader of crypto, I would prefer my assets in liquid form which translates to conv...

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