## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
    
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **24 SBD and 556 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-2019-11-05), 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** [BTC  New study says single manipulator responsible or 2017 rally](https://steemit.com/@jrcornel/btc-new-study-says-single-manipulator-responsible-or-2017-rally)  --  **by @jrcornel with a current reward of 34 SBD**
    
> Basically ever since Bitcoin hit 20k in late 2017, rumors have swirled with just how legitimate that rally really was. There was a strong correlation with tethers being issued and the price of bitcoin going up. There wasnt a lot of meat to those rumors initially, mostly just a lot of circumstantial evidence. The fact that there have been snapshots released of bank account figures backing the amount of tethers in circulation have put some of those fearsrumors to rest, but not all of them...

**#2** [Green for 750 Steem](https://steemit.com/@tarazkp/green-for-750-steem)  --  **by @tarazkp with a current reward of 16 SBD**
    
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> Today, I got a call while at work from an electricity company asking if I wanted to change my provider to them and normally I would brush them off, however since I had a few minutes and was standing next to a quite booth anyway, I decided to take the call. A few weeks ago I changed my phone provider after 16 years and ended up saving a little, but more importantly for me, being able to roll all of the invoices into one, something that the other provider was reluctant to do for some reas...

**#3** [Bozzlife Things that scared the  out of you as a kid](https://steemit.com/@bozz/bozzlife-things-that-scared-the-usd-out-of-you-as-a-kid)  --  **by @bozz with a current reward of 12 SBD**
    
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> classpullright I know I am a bit late for the Halloween season to be posting this now. The truth is I was really busy and the idea just came to me. Who knows where we will all be a year from now, so I decided to just go with it. When I was a kid, there was this old dead end road that was connected to a curve. If you went straight you found yourself at the dead end, if you continued around the curve you made your way towards my childhood home. It was called Robs Corner and the old...

**#4** [Daily Snippet 3 Being pulled over by the police](https://steemit.com/@jacobsanders/daily-snippet-3-being-pulled-over-by-the-police)  --  **by @jacobsanders with a current reward of 10 SBD**
    
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>After a cold shower not out of choice to wake me up, I set out on getting closer to Nepal Half an hour into the days riding I was summoned over to the side of the road by a police car. Sadly it wasnt the fashion police although I probably would be deserving of a visit and they were in full gear. Hopping off the bike and following them to a building just off the side of the road they offered me some food and tea! This certainly was a surprise and was needed as I hadnt had breakfast at this...

**#5** [Israel Elections 2019 Updates ](https://steemit.com/@atheistrepublic/iarwwhkf)  --  **by @atheistrepublic with a current reward of 9 SBD**
    
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> Watch on 3Speak Post a video of yourself with your message for other atheists and well share it on Atheist Republics Facebook page and YouTube channel. Submit your own video here If you prefer to submit an audio message for our podcast, you can do so here Online platforms are fighting against content they find too sensitive by reducing post reach, strikes, removal of controversial posts... We want to discuss topics many find too controversial. To get the content we produ...

**#6** [Solominers Spooky Stories My garage doppelganger](https://steemit.com/@solominer/ezshnbrl)  --  **by @solominer with a current reward of 9 SBD**
    
>a One of the more strange experiences occurred outdoors after a long days work, moving mulch in the yard. My friend and I worked for hours adding wood chips to the property. Around lunch time I go inside to take a quick shower and to start cooking us food so we can take a break. Its a normal shower for me, nothing out of the ordinary but while I am in the bathroom. My friend sees out the corner of his eye a person moving through garage going through items. At first thought my friend tho...

**#7** [ACLU Sues FBI And Other Agencies, Defending Privacy Rights Of Americans Against Facial Recognition](https://steemit.com/@activistpost/aclu-sues-fbi-and-other-agencies-defending-privacy-rights-of-americans-against-facial-recognition)  --  **by @activistpost with a current reward of 9 SBD**
    
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>a relattachment wpatt173012 class wpimage173012 alt width777 height408 By a Kesel The ACLU has sued the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and other federal agencies, making claims that the government is improperly withholding information on how it uses a facial recognition database on millions of Americans. The civil rights organization also asks for a federal court to intervene and order the FBI and related agencies to turn over all records concerning their use of face recognition t...

**#8** [So the next day, we drove up high above the sea level  Day 745 Freewrite Monday  Prompt sea level](https://steemit.com/@myrockandocean/so-the-next-day-we-drove-up-high-above-the-sea-level-day-745-freewrite-monday-prompt-sea-level)  --  **by @myrockandocean with a current reward of 8 SBD**
    
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> Our visit to Lloret de Mar was a great fix for my winter blues. Even it was not winter yet, we expected between 8 and 12 degrees Celcius in average on a good day in Paris. So when we arrived at Barcelona airport for the All Saints Holiday just two weeks after the heated movements for Independencia de Catalua it was sunny and 18 degrees, oh it was summer all over again. The drive from Barcelona Airport was easy and it took us around 1.5 hours to arrive to Lloret de Mar. We hired a lovely ...

**#9** [Updates to Spaminator](https://steemit.com/@spaminator/updates-to-spaminator)  --  **by @spaminator with a current reward of 8 SBD**
    
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> Most of you know that spaminator was started by patrice in 2017. Patrice is now away and has been away for an extended period of time. As a result, spaminator and mackbot are currently technically operated by guiltyparties and managed by steemcleaners members. If youre getting downvoted by mackbot or spaminator please immediately report over to the steemcleaners Discord mackbot and spaminator section at It is very important that you appeal immediately. In some cases the account thats bl...

**#10** [Steemleo Weekly Stats 102819 to 11032019](https://steemit.com/@leo.stats/steemleo-weekly-stats-10-28-19-to-11-03-2019)  --  **by @leo.stats with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
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>Welcome to the weekly edition of Steemleo stats. This is no.14 leo.stats report. If you want to know a bit more about the Steemleo platform and dig into the numbers, this is the place to be. This week highlight We have new addition to the leo.stats report, tokens issued and top earners for the week. Also, following the increase in the leo.voter SP over 500k, we are now seeing increase in activity on the steeleo.com. The following topics will be covered 	Issued LEO Tokens 	Top LEO Ear...



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-2019-11-05) 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-2019-44).


## Your Customized Top List

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