## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
    
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **4 SBD and 175 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-2019-11-02), 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** [Relics from the stone pagoda, at the special exhibition of Geumsansa temple](https://steemit.com/@slowwalker/relics-from-the-stone-pagoda-at-the-special-exhibition-of-geumsansa-temple)  --  **by @slowwalker with a current reward of 39 SBD**
    
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>In Buddhism, the pagoda has many meanings. First of all, it serves as the tomb of high priests. Sometimes, saris of monks are found inside the old stone pagoda. Sari is small crystals sometimes found among cremated remains of monk, and regarded as sacred relics Also, the pagoda in Buddhism means paradise of Buddhism. The pagoda is more than just a symbolic architecture of Buddhism. Korea, China, and Japan each developed a unique Buddhist culture suitable for their conditions. Especially, th...

**#2** [The passage of time on DTube](https://steemit.com/@adetorrent/d86m7e1slru)  --  **by @adetorrent with a current reward of 16 SBD**
    
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>a Greetings Steemians, How are you doing today? I hope youre well and living your life in the moment. Its been a moment since I made a video for DTube. I was reading the STINC blog about delegations to different projects and at that point DTube had not gotten back with their answers to be considred for delegation. At the point of making this video, I dont know what the status is with all that, but I hope STINC considers DTube for the top tier of delegations. Its a shame that it w...

**#3** [The Surge U.S. DOJ And Trump To Further Militarize Police  600 Billion In Equipment](https://steemit.com/@activistpost/the-surge-u-s-doj-and-trump-to-further-militarize-police-usd600-billion-in-equipment)  --  **by @activistpost with a current reward of 11 SBD**
    
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>a relattachment wpatt190208 class wpimage190208 alt width777 height437 By a Kesel U.S. President Donald Trump is using his executive order signed in 2017 to expand the a classeasyazonlink targetblank relnofollow noopener noreferrer datacarty datacloaky dataidentifier1610394577 datalocaleUS datalocalizey datapopupsn datatagpermacultucom20militarized police forces across the nation in preparation to launch a sweeping crackdown on crime that Trump referenced was the surge according to a ...

**#4** [Consistency and originality for differentiation](https://steemit.com/@tarazkp/consistency-and-originality-for-differentiation)  --  **by @tarazkp with a current reward of 9 SBD**
    
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> I remember a discussion I had in a chat over two years ago when I had relatively recently become a dolphin and was closing in on 10,000 SP and thought that I would unlikely ever hold much more than that. This time last year I was on my way to SteemFest3 in Poland and had around 20K, and now a year later, I am closing in on 70k. Oops. I have been fortunate to be able to buy a bit over the last 6 months as well as maintain my consistency in posting to earn more, and because price has fall...

**#5** [Exchanges And Marketplaces](https://steemit.com/@taskmaster4450/exchanges-and-marketplaces)  --  **by @taskmaster4450 with a current reward of 9 SBD**
    
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> Source We are seeing the foundation of this industry being laid. To reach mainstream adoption, we will have to see a lot of bricks put in place. As time goes by, we will see the evolution which makes it easier for people to use what they accumulate. Probably the biggest question asked by those outside of cryptocurrency is what can you do with the tokens. While we tend to come up with a lot of answers, they tend to not be sufficient for those who are not eyeball deep in this industry. ...

**#6** [InterTerrestrial Encounters](https://steemit.com/@astraeir/inter-terrestrial-encounters)  --  **by @astraeir with a current reward of 8 SBD**
    
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> This is one of my newest pencil drawings on paper. I felt inspired to honor through my art this powerful animal spirit ally, a messenger of Gaia, a Sonoran Desert toad. The ine intelligence of Nature is literally mindblowing and it brings us back home into our heart. From this place, we can see clearly and remember that Love is all there IS! We are able to see through the veils of illusion that distort our realities to experience our multidimensionality, our inity, that is just a breath ...

**#7** [My Review of Android 10 Q for Queen Cake](https://steemit.com/@ds-tech/my-review-of-android-10-q-for-queen-cake)  --  **by @ds-tech with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
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> Obviously, DSTech Media is centered around my video content, so you can find the video on Youtube, Dtbue, BitChute and LBRY Youtube Dtube Bitchute LBRY I recently installed the update for Android 10 Queencake on my Google Pixel XL. Yes, Im still using the first generation Pixel XL, and yes Im still getting Androids latest releases. It came out a few months ago so Im pretty late, but hey better late than never. Android 10, common referred to simply as Android Q marks a departure fro...

**#8** [Im kind of a big deal! Over 2yrs of hard work and some amazing interactions.](https://steemit.com/@welshstacker/i-m-kind-of-a-big-deal-over-2yrs-of-hard-work-and-some-amazing-interactions)  --  **by @welshstacker with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
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> Well the big day finally arrived. Ive officially become a big deal in the merry land of steemit. Your reputation score can be an indicator of many things. Your rep can be an indicator of how long you have been on the platform OR it can show how much your content is valued by the whole of the Steemit community. A low reputation can mean that your account has been punished by flagsdownvotes. 69.985 Id first noticed I was creeping up to the big 70 a few days ago, I even took a screensh...

**#9** [Pull up others in your own way in Steem  Steem Talk](https://steemit.com/@rehan12/022smz7rtl4)  --  **by @rehan12 with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
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>a While it has been really visible there are various changes taking places due to Newsteem. Where many users are really getting some support and making their time and effort in here worthwhile. While as a user of Steem for some time it is our duty to be of help to those content creators in any way possible. Some easy ways to be of help to other content creators which you think deserves enough support do share them with others in various ways like Resteem, share the links in other discord...

**#10** [ Cryptocurrency Market Overview  01.11.2019](https://steemit.com/@cryptospa/p597o0kc1pi)  --  **by @cryptospa with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
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>a Hello dear Steemians and Dtubers! In this video I commented on todays situation with the crypto exchange BitMEX 1 Early in the morning they published an announcement saying that BitMEX will update its indices across all products. 2 Later they accidentally leaked a list of users emails. 3 On the top of this hackers toke over BitMEX Twitter. Enjoy watching the video and, please, comment! A few words about me Just to let you know Ive been working professionally as a currency analyst...



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-2019-11-02) 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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