## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
    
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **545 SBD and 18032 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-2019-08-19), 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** [BuildTeam Token Distribution Report](https://steemit.com/@buildteam/buildteam-token-distribution-report)  --  **by @buildteam with a current reward of 46 SBD**
    
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> Total Distributed 2548.75 BUILDTEAM Autostaked Portion 2167.00 BUILDTEAM Autostaked 85.02 Adhoc Bounties Surplus 6553.75 BUILDTEAM BUILDTEAM Price 0.187 USD Notes BUILDTEAM token distribution was sent to builders and bounty hunters that did work for BuildTeam projects during this period. Bitshares spot price, excludes Steem Engine market as SE is not indexed on coingecko.com Liquid BUILDTEAM tokes were sent via Steem Engine Autostaked tokens were sent to the Bitshares buildteamve...

**#2** [Another photo of Ghislaine Maxwell at InNOut Burger shows clear evidence of being photoshopped](https://steemit.com/@theouterlight/ccjtdkur)  --  **by @theouterlight with a current reward of 21 SBD**
    
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> Watch on 3Speak Researchers have noted that a largely unseen photograph of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffery Epsteins madam, shows clear evidence of photo manipulation so clear, that it almost seems like it was purposely made to look fake. The photo in question is another view of Ghislaine Maxwell from a different angle and with glasses removed at InNOut Burger in LA, reading The Book of Honor The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives. The photo shows very clear use of photo manipulat...

**#3** [HeartBreaking SteemPeak News r00sj3 leaves team](https://steemit.com/@steempeak/heart-breaking-steempeak-news-r00sj3-leaves-team)  --  **by @steempeak with a current reward of 21 SBD**
    
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>A personal note... Source Guys and girls, I have sad news. You may have noticed that my blog r00sj3 has been rather inactive lately. This has partly to do with me moving country because of a new job that I started one month ago. This new job is amazing, but it has a big downside which is that I wont be able to remain part of the SteemPeak team. I joined the team just over a year ago. I am proud of having been involved in the development of a once unknown platform that is currently one ...

**#4** [are you using Duck Duck Go?](https://steemit.com/@gooddream/are-you-using-duck-duck-go)  --  **by @gooddream with a current reward of 21 SBD**
    
>I think there are a lot of people out there that are extremely concerned with online security and privacy. I think it might be safe to say that the Steemit community is likely more concerned with that sort of thing than average. With all the stuff going on in the news about how Google is actually trying to manipulate peoples search results and also collecting data on their users it only seems logical to me that we at least have a look at alternatives. source To be honest with ya, ...

**#5** [Today in History ABC begins Saturday Morning Cartoons](https://steemit.com/@gooddream/today-in-history-abc-begins-saturday-morning-cartoons)  --  **by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD**
    
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>The year was 1950 and ABC was about to invent something that was really important for anyone that is around my age. If you were born after 1990 or so, there is a good chance that you never experienced the glory that was Saturday Morning Cartoons but let me tell you, it was something that everyone looked forward to every week. source The original programming that ABC chose wasnt actually cartoons, but it would later evolve into that. The original shows were entitles Animal Clinic and...

**#6** [The Pursuit of Happyness film Just delightful](https://steemit.com/@gooddream/the-pursuit-of-happyness-film-just-delightful)  --  **by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD**
    
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>The intentionally misspelled film The Pursuit of Happyness is one of my favorite movies ever and is one of the only times that Wills kid Jaden has done well in a movie that might remain the case as his completely undeserved ego continues to plague his life. source This film follows the truetolife story of Chris Gardner played by Will Smith in the film as he struggled to find success in business while also caring for his very young son at times being homeless in the process. so...

**#7** [Seven Pounds film  Perhaps Will Smiths finest work](https://steemit.com/@gooddream/seven-pounds-film-perhaps-will-smith-s-finest-work)  --  **by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD**
    
>I am one of those people that has a love hate relationship with Will Smith. I think he has tremendous potential, but he squanders it in a lot of the big money films that he is involved in. Seven Pounds was not a big budget film and I feel as though it is one of Smiths finest performances in his career. source Seven Pounds came to my mind because I recently watched The Pursuit of Happyness and me got me thinking about how Will Smith isnt a shite actor at all but he just sells himsel...

**#8** [Sextuplets film More Wayans garbage.](https://steemit.com/@gooddream/sextuplets-film-more-wayans-garbage)  --  **by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD**
    
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>When the Wayans family is involved in something and it ends up being awful, I dont think very many people are surprised. This family has a long line of crap films and TV shows and Marlon is probably the biggest offender as far as garbage shows and movies are concerned. source The story of this film isnt important because the entire things is just dumb. The create whatever scenario they need to in order to have Marlon play 6 different people none of which are funny. Well, i suppose o...

**#9** [Nate Diaz is just awesome](https://steemit.com/@gooddream/nate-diaz-is-just-awesome)  --  **by @gooddream with a current reward of 20 SBD**
    
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>Ive always loved Nate DIaz from the very first time I started to know about him. I base a lot of this on the fact that I never really much cared for Conor McGregor, once he started talking. source So today Nate Diaz faced Anthony Pettis and most people, including the Vegas betting lines, didnt give him much of a shot. Ill admit, I didnt even know that he was fighting today. I woke up late and rushed out the door to find that the fight was just starting at the bar that I watch th...

**#10** [Secret code Good boys PhotoShoppedin photo of Ghislaine Maxwell at InNOut Burger](https://steemit.com/@theouterlight/gtekapwi)  --  **by @theouterlight with a current reward of 19 SBD**
    
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> Watch on 3Speak Recently the New York Post published a photo of Ghislaine Maxwell at InNOut Burger. Researchers have pointed out the many anomalies with the photo, but perhaps the most major one is the fact that the billboard in the background, for an upcoming film called Good Boys, has been Photo Shopped into the photo. This has been stated by a senior advertising spokes person at the company, Carly Zipp from Outfront Media; a billion dollar company, who owns the advertising space ...



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-2019-08-19) 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-2019-33).


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