## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
    
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **18484 SBD and 1782 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](https://steemit.com/steemit/@trufflepig/daily-truffle-picks-2018-04-22), 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** [Top SECRET Project  The Biggest I Have EVER Worked On](https://steemit.com/@spenceryan/xld0et24)  --  **by @spenceryan with a current reward of 142 SBD**
    
>a Whats up Steemians and DTubers!? Be sure to check out the EPIC cinematic B Roll throughout the entire first 115 of the video! Im going to start of by saying that I dont believe anybody on this platform has worked on a video project quite this big. And the fact that Im saying that should give you confidence that this project is huge. Today I visited a very special place in central Manhattan to meet with a very special person on a VERY special TOP SECRET project that is going to change ...

**#2** [ 119  Walk With Me OpHumanAngels with My Boy kiedisbowes](https://steemit.com/@lyndsaybowes/119-walk-with-me-ophumanangels-with-my-boy-kiedisbowes)  --  **by @lyndsaybowes with a current reward of 103 SBD**
    
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> We left without any supplies, yet nature provided as always, a stick and some gravely dirt on the sides of the roads. We passed by this note stuck to a pylon on a dock. I must have put that there 4 months ago! Ive seen that pylon moved around a lot through the months by fishermen, yet they dont remove it. Or maybe they still havent seen it? You are Very Loved and Needed You Mattr 3 3 3 And how could I not be happy? The sun was shining, the wind was not too bad, the ocean air s...

**#3** [Nebula spotted in the Steem Universe!!](https://steemit.com/@ali2star/nebula-spotted-in-the-steem-universe)  --  **by @ali2star with a current reward of 94 SBD**
    
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> Very, very, recently.in the not so inaccessible Steem Universe; a Nebula has started to form information in the blankness of space. Reaching and pullingin deep through the vacuum The 2star Galaxy starts to collect, all the blocks and bits of information interacting with one another through magnetism. Some partials and chemicals are slower to reaction. All these nerves forming from access to all this new information, like any infinite learning to grown. New things need to be felt, new n...

**#4** [ Twenty years without people  Journey to an abandoned mine ](https://steemit.com/@anna-mi/twenty-years-without-people-journey-to-an-abandoned-mine)  --  **by @anna-mi with a current reward of 86 SBD**
    
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> This weekend I spend in the village where I was born. I havent visited my parents house for a long time, so my children and I went on a little trip to visit grandmother. Previously, there was a large working village. Life was in full swing and actively developed. But for more than twenty years, this place is almost abandoned. Mines and factories closed. Young people moved to cities. And only old men now live in this village. I invite you to take this journey with me. And to see how nature...

**#5** [Travel Story First Time Camping Alone  Getting Lost  Wet](https://steemit.com/@mrprofessor/travel-story-first-time-camping-alone-or-getting-lost-and-wet)  --  **by @mrprofessor with a current reward of 85 SBD**
    
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> Have you missed my travel stories? If youve been reading my series you may have noticed that almost all of them have a small touch of misery to it hahahaha, its part of the game. This time it wasnt diferent, check it out and have fun! Id like to start with a quote, from myself. You know what? Lets freaking do it! Incredible how all my craziest and funniest experiences have started with this exact sentence. As always, no planning, barely no money and a lot of enthusiasm, thats the way to hav...

**#6** [Tattoo Den  Day 1835 Minute Freewrite](https://steemit.com/@wandrnrose7/tattoo-den-day-183-5-minute-freewrite)  --  **by @wandrnrose7 with a current reward of 81 SBD**
    
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> Daniel entered the dim tattoo parlor with a wad of crumpled 20s. He heard this artist was the best in a 100 mile radius and he had saved for six months for this appointment. Be on time, or Ill cancel the appointment, came the gravelly voice over the mobile phone. He was 12 hour early as the roar on the odd door bell announced his arrival. Behind him, the door clicked, he turned back surprised. Was he locked in?? Curtains pulled silently shut on a humming electronic rod. The parlor wa...

**#7** [KASSI PLAYS  PUBG today, but Elite Dangerous tomorrow?](https://steemit.com/@kassixo/8ec4f47a-459e-11e8-b5f5-0242ac110002)  --  **by @kassixo with a current reward of 80 SBD**
    
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> Finished Life Is Strange Before the Storm and now back to the main road for the night PUBG. Just bought Elite Dangerous though, but it is on download at the moment, so Ill definitely give it a try in the next days to see if I like it or not. D Lately Ive been really into space stuff though. Even googled today How to become an astronaut and discovered that yeah.. in this life I probably wont, but luckily we have this side life in gaming, right, where we can become whoever we want to. D M...

**#8** [Midwest All Star Wrestling Recap April 21, 2018](https://steemit.com/@ddrfr33k/midwest-all-star-wrestling-recap-april-21-2018)  --  **by @ddrfr33k with a current reward of 77 SBD**
    
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>Well, that was a fun night! Midwest All Star Wrestling MAW hosted a charity event to raise money for Women of Nations, a shelter for native American victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. It was held at the Minneapolis American Indean Center MAIC, and I would have had no idea this was a thing unless Bin told me about it. Thanks, buddy! Me with Jake Savage classpullleft Craven KnyteThe matches started out at 730 with a Best of Three match Craven Knyte vs Ryan Cruz. The action...

**#9** [Vlogging Outside Is Better Than Your White Wall Background  Why Its Better Outside Vs Inside](https://steemit.com/@dronemania/ia8mggry)  --  **by @dronemania with a current reward of 73 SBD**
    
>a Hello Stars In this video i will explain in the most logical reason why i would prefer to make videos, vlogging, tutorials, reviews ect.. out doors vs indoors!!! ALL OF THE CONTENT HERE WAS MADE BY MY OWN HANDS AND MY OWN TIME PLEASE KEEP IT REAL ORIGINAL, MAKE YOUR OWN WORKCONTENT AND DO NOT STEAL, COPY OR RIP OFF OTHERS HARD WORKED CONTENT LETS ALL BE A FAMILY AND SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER THE CORRECT AND PROPER WAY THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME AND UNDERSTANDING PEACE FROM drone mania...

**#10** [GETTING TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER  PAPAPEPPER INTERVIEWS MONOTHARCH](https://steemit.com/@papa-pepper/getting-to-know-one-another-papa-pepper-interviews-monotharch)  --  **by @papa-pepper with a current reward of 71 SBD**
    
> Not only will this give papapepper a great opportunity to learn more about them, but it will give you all a chance to either meet them or learn more about them. This guy has been a family friend for some years now, and after missing our chance to interview him at the St. Louis zoo, we found ourselves back in the area with another opportunity. We seriously just tried to lock ourselves in the basement for a few minutes, but eventually people found the locked doors and began to pound on the...



So? What is your opinion about these non-bot trending posts? Before I forget, do not miss out on checking my other top list of [DAILY TRUFFLE PICKS](https://steemit.com/steemit/@trufflepig/daily-truffle-picks-2018-04-22) to help minnows and promote good content! Moreover, if you want to find out more about me, [here I give a detailed explanation about my inner workings](https://steemit.com/steemit/@trufflepig/weekly-truffle-updates-2018-16).


## Your Customized Top List

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