## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
    
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **13 SBD and 180 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-2019-10-31), 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** [Samsingak, an old friendlike building in Younghwasa](https://steemit.com/@slowwalker/samsingak-an-old-friend-like-building-in-younghwasa)  --  **by @slowwalker with a current reward of 41 SBD**
    
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>The most interesting building in Younghwasa was Samsingak. The most important and meaningful building in the temple is, of course, Daewoongjeon. Deawoongjeon is a building for the Buddha. However, Samsingak is far from orthodox Buddhism. Samsingak is the result of Buddhisms acceptance of traditional beliefs in Korea. It was after 17th century that Samsingak was built in the temple. Before then, there were no Samsingak in the temple. During the seven years of 15921599, the last of the 16th c...

**#2** [Accumulate Tokens And Let The Market Take Care Of The Rest](https://steemit.com/@taskmaster4450/os8ol1mq1sg)  --  **by @taskmaster4450 with a current reward of 23 SBD**
    
>a We need to focus upon what we can control. There is a lot of energy, time, and emotion spend on things that are beyond our control. We cannot do anything about it yet we still put our attention there. Markets are one thing that is beyond our control. They go up and they go down. We also know that the altcoin bull market will return. When, what it will look like, and how long it will last are beyond us. Yet we do know it will be there. Combining these two ideas tells me to focus ...

**#3** [Our experience promoting the Steem blockchain in the Entrepreneurs Expofair organized by Rotary Itcheme](https://steemit.com/@votovzla/our-experience-promoting-the-steem-blockchain-in-the-entrepreneurs-expo-fair-organized-by-rotary-itcheme)  --  **by @votovzla with a current reward of 16 SBD**
    
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> Last October 19 and 20 we were promoting the blockchain steem at the Expo Empresarial organized by Rotary International sede Itcheme with its End Polio campaign, all this took place in the city of El Tigre Venezuela. The purpose of attending this expofair was to be able to be in contact with new people who do not know about cryptocurrencies and blockchain steem, so that they can make the decision to learn a little about this technology. We would like to thank theycallmedan for s...

**#4** [Preparing the greenhouse for winter to grow crops all year long](https://steemit.com/@smallblockfuelie/preparing-the-greenhouse-for-winter-to-grow-crops-all-year-long)  --  **by @smallblockfuelie with a current reward of 10 SBD**
    
> We have received our first snow of the year and it is time to begin preparing the greenhouse for winter. We have winter crops planted in the greenhouse and will provide supplemental heat all winter long with a heat sink. This is a bit of an experiment for us, but we expect to be able to grow food all year long with this greenhouse and our traditional soil garden. Our winter prep consists of adding a second layer of plastic to the sidewalls. The plastic is separated from the existing si...

**#5** [Twitter banning political advertising; what will Facebook do?](https://steemit.com/@brianoflondon/otwcdnvj)  --  **by @brianoflondon with a current reward of 9 SBD**
    
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> Watch on 3Speak Last night Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted out a thread announcing that Twitter would no longer take paid political advertising. Now the pressure will shift on to Facebook to do the same! Banning an entire class of customer from using their services is somewhat similar to the Crypto Advertising Ban that forms the basis of the jpbliberty class action case in Australia! Whatever happens, this continuing drive for more censorship rather than less will not end well fo...

**#6** [Inktober 2019 Day 31  Ripe](https://steemit.com/@michael.dime/inktober-2019-day-31-ripe)  --  **by @michael.dime with a current reward of 8 SBD**
    
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>It is here! It is Halloween, but also the end of this years Inktober. Its been a blast and I am grateful to have been able to participate in this display of ideas and skills with the help of drawing. Heres my prompt for todays theme, which is Ripe. A field full of pumpkins, ready to be harvested and transformed into creative jackolanterns, but thats not all. There is also, quite far in the distance, a table with one cake on it. That is because todays also the birthday of one of my friends f...

**#7** [I Just Needed To Go To The Dentist Soon Because Of My Cracked Molar](https://steemit.com/@cryptopie/i-just-needed-to-go-to-the-dentist-soon-because-of-my-cracked-molar)  --  **by @cryptopie with a current reward of 8 SBD**
    
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> Apprehensive Going To The Dentist I cracked my upper molar tooth last October 10th while eating some crispy pork skin. The skin wasnt so tough, it is just my teeth is that weak to sustain the normal chewing of such foods. Now it is maybe a few hundreths of millimeter before a tooth rot would reach the nerve and that is what I am afraid of. I am also afraid that if the molar was to be extracted then it might crack again living the tooth roots behind and that would be some kind of big troub...

**#8** [DO IT YOURSELF permanent tattoo](https://steemit.com/@dissi/do-it-yourself-permanent-tattoo)  --  **by @dissi with a current reward of 8 SBD**
    
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>Hello everyone, today I will show you, how you can make a permanent tattoo by yourself. This should only be a little tutorial. I assume no liability, if injury, infection or something else happens! What you need 	cotton darners needle 	string 	drawing ink 	tattoo pen or a black wood colour 	eventually backing paper The motive I recommend making only a little tattoo, because it takes time and perhaps at the end it isnt that beautiful as in a studio. But if you want, you can make a big ...

**#9** [I Pray That I Could See A Palpable Improvement In My Crappy Life](https://steemit.com/@cryptopie/i-pray-that-i-could-see-a-palpable-improvement-in-my-crappy-life)  --  **by @cryptopie with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
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> I Feel Like Vomiting I Feel like I wanted to vomit this early morning and every night for that matter, it is because of the nasty nauseating sideeffect of my medicine, my Cinacalcet which I am just taking once a day because of the said sideeffect. That is why I am trying to combat it with eating fruits but tonight was different as the grapes that my mother had bought for me provided no improvement. So I kept on getting hiccups and this feeling of fullness. My extra fluids in my body doesn...

**#10** [Solominers Spooky Stories Luci the dog got a treat](https://steemit.com/@solominer/j7e32ey1)  --  **by @solominer with a current reward of 6 SBD**
    
>a Not all encounters have been with humans, sometimes the cats and even the dog have some strange run ins with the strangeness around here. One time, the dog walked into the other room. Seemingly to cool off after laying in the sun, after awhile I walked into the other room. And the dog comes out of the stairway with a dog biscuit in her mouth. We keep the dog and cat treats locked up so the animals cant get to them. So it was quite weird to see her with one of the treats. It was as if...



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-2019-10-31) 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-2019-43).


## Your Customized Top List

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