## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
    
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **24 SBD and 608 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-2019-11-19), 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** [Visit Portugal  Santa Susana](https://steemit.com/@portugalcoin/visit-portugal-santa-susana)  --  **by @portugalcoin with a current reward of 11 SBD**
    
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> a Susana It all started in the 1950, when farm workers arriving to work in the Alentejo were housed on the property of cousins Henrique Fernandes and Manuel Louro. A few years later, these workers eventually took their families there and transformed the space into a village called Santa Susana. And so, by chance, the most beautiful village in Alentejo was born. Santa Susana is close to the Alcovas stream and the Pego do Altar dam, in the Alccer do Sal municipality. About 10min from L...

**#2** [Trees for Bees 2 Cassia ](https://steemit.com/@artemislives/trees-for-bees-2-cassia)  --  **by @artemislives with a current reward of 10 SBD**
    
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>Teaching bee keeping to indigenous Karen refugee displaced people in DecemberJanuary has me planning NOW and thinking about long term food supply for the bees in the years ahead. In the pristine jungles along the Thai Burma border, the wild bees naturally hibernate and live off the honey in their hives when there is little food about. Our challenge is to extend those periods of flowering available food sources by carefully adding flowering trees around the edges of refugee camps, settlemen...

**#3** [Tight Boxers](https://steemit.com/@bleuxwolf/ntopaz--bleuxwolf--1879362813--ntopaz-art-palnet-creativecoin-neoxian--2019-11-18-22-37-45--artwork--none)  --  **by @bleuxwolf with a current reward of 8 SBD**
    
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>Commission for TylerFurlong86 on Twitter. Undies are feeling a bit tight downstairs. ART PARAMETER DETAIL Art Medium Digital Krita Art Tool Wacom Cintiq 13 HD Art Style Semirealistic Level of Detail Color Sketch Background Detail Simple Size Full Body Dimensions Landscape 2048 x 2560 Date Completed 20191117 Character Tyler Twitter TylerFurlong86 Artwork by bleuxwolf     If you liked the content, an upvote and resteem will and always be greatly...

**#4** [In Every Why I See You](https://steemit.com/@dobartim/in-every-why-i-see-you)  --  **by @dobartim with a current reward of 8 SBD**
    
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> In every atom of invisible energy I feel your presence, every thought begins with an emotion that lifts me to the pedestal of mystical feelings. The presence of unknown vibrations opens up new fields of reality that lead us on the paths of experience; we create miraculous dimensions of reality with the cosmic principle of creation. Something has changed in the memories that lead me to your words, your touches are present in every detail of my emotions. Your thoughts are opening new hori...

**#5** [SEAPORT IN VIEW.](https://steemit.com/@glotokens/seaport-in-view-kdqqfmij)  --  **by @glotokens with a current reward of 8 SBD**
    
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> The last time my team went to the city of Port Harcourt for emancipation, we went visiting and I decide to take pictures of the seaport with the ships and canoe, it was indeed a wonderful sight to behold. Seeing people using the canoe as their means of transportation. It was quite funny though, seeing beautiful and well dress men and women struggle for the life Jacket in other to enter the canoe to live for work, just as we struggle to enter a taxi or tricycle so that we wont be late for ...

**#6** [Low Trades  Bitcoin Song Official Video Airplanes, Bitcoin Remix](https://steemit.com/@cryptofinally/o1i69q0qdmt)  --  **by @cryptofinally with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
>a I could use a bull run but rather have a dip, to get to spend this fiat, that would be my wish... Cause after all the bulls and the market cap crashing, and the men with the suits when they cashed in... LYRICS We contend that low trades, and the right buys will take us far I could really use a dip right now, dip right now, dip right now We contend that low trades, and the right buys will take us far I could really use a dip right now, dip right now, dip right now Yeah I could use...

**#7** [As you may have already noticed, , I have been to a few places in my time. I ...](https://steemit.com/@adetorrent/appics-v1-appics-im-45511)  --  **by @adetorrent with a current reward of 6 SBD**
    
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>... actually hate travelling, but I love being at the destination. Its the process of travelling buses, cars, trains and particularly planes, that bother me a bit. Anyhow, I love to visit places that are steeped in history. This is why I really love North Africa and South Europe. Basically, anything near, in, or around the Mediterranean Sea. This is me on the island of Rhodes, which is an ancient, ancient island with history dating wayyyyy back. I love to just stand there mindblown by...

**#8** [Victory for Free State Activist Wrongfully Arrested for Filming Police at Checkpoint](https://steemit.com/@activistpost/victory-for-free-state-activist-wrongfully-arrested-for-filming-police-at-checkpoint)  --  **by @activistpost with a current reward of 5 SBD**
    
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>a relattachment wpatt132526 class wpimage132526 alt width777 height518 By a Wright Contrary to what many police would like the public to believe, the Constitution isnt null and void when in their presence. In fact, its quite the opposite it can be seen as the publics duty to hold police accountable during any and all interactions with them. True, a courts have disputed such rights in the past, but it is still widely recognized in all 50 states that a person has the right to film pol...

**#9** [156 The story of Nur al Din and his brother Shams al Din Episode  67](https://steemit.com/@abdullahyusuf/156-the-story-of-nur-al-din-and-his-brother-shams-al-din-episode-67)  --  **by @abdullahyusuf with a current reward of 5 SBD**
    
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> Husseins eyes are wide open. Say, what happened? In the evening, I left the boy and his servant in the evening to say hassan. After that, a group of people came and broke my shop and crushed it. Throw my sweets on the road. Tied me with a rope. Hussein is surprised. Why, why bind? How do i say Even those who were bound could not say. The order of the Uzir, so. However, I was brought before the complainant. After seeing me, Uzi shouted, Hmmm you made halwa? Hussein says, what made it? W...

**#10** [What are Some of Your Favorite Holiday or Family Holiday Traditions? Here is One of Mine... Got My New Santa Hat...](https://steemit.com/@jeronimorubio/r9t4wkx9deh)  --  **by @jeronimorubio with a current reward of 5 SBD**
    
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>a  What are Some of Your Favorite Holiday or Family Holiday Traditions? Here is One of Mine... Got My New Santa Hat... JustTagIt !christmas, holiday traditions, family, friends, jeronimorubio, holiday.png Santa and the Three Bears promo 1982 on Thanksgiving Day for Out Family Holiday Movies Check out All the New Tokens Tribes on Steem Engine dsound is One Place to Get Music for your Videos but, Ask Permission First Free Stock Music is Another Great Website for this as Wel...



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## Your Customized Top List

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