## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
    
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **3 SBD and 561 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-2019-11-20), 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** [A Sense of Time](https://steemit.com/@dobartim/a-sense-of-time)  --  **by @dobartim with a current reward of 10 SBD**
    
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> Time passes in waterfalls of wisdom and ignorance, leaving the most beautiful memories that lift us on the wings of enthusiasm. I like the thought of your humanity capturing the best emotions in the heart of pure light, I feel the rhythm of change in every word that gives me meaning. The best of us becomes a lion hungry for wisdom and knowledge, we create paths of eternity with the success of moral virtues. Look at the wonderful horizons of possibilities that warm us from the sunny side...

**#2** [Adexit](https://steemit.com/@adetorrent/adexit)  --  **by @adetorrent with a current reward of 8 SBD**
    
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>The dark months are now upon us in the North, and many are starting to hunker down for the winter season. It dipped under freezing temperature yesterday night, so we woke up to frost and some ice here and there. Its going to be a brutal winter this year, apparently. Personally, I hope there are no new records set in that regard. I dont think I can take another brutal winter to be honest. Ive also noticed the change in my pocket. Im using more gas to heat my place, which means a larger ...

**#3** [Coffee and Cards Obstacles  Lessons  Weekly Oracle Card Reading for 11.04.19](https://steemit.com/@pixiepost/0se09izdr1z)  --  **by @pixiepost with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
>a Spirituality PixiePost OracleCardReading Coffee and Cards is BACK! This weeks Oracle Card reading focuses on moving forward taking that leap of faith. Also, self care comes into play as balance in life is suggested. Lets see what messages comes through as the Universes energy comes through. . . . Disclaimer This is a GENERAL card reading to give insight life direction as we start embracing empowering our true selves. Its for entertainment purposes only, even though my read...

**#4** [Anonymous Hacks China As Chinese Military Moves On Hong Kong, Students Trapped at Polytechnic University](https://steemit.com/@activistpost/anonymous-hacks-china-as-chinese-military-moves-on-hong-kong-students-trapped-at-polytechnic-university)  --  **by @activistpost with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
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>a relattachment wpatt196688 class wpimage196688 alt width777 height452 By a Kesel Anonymous has hacked into various Chinese websites and databases dumping files from government employee data to corporate data including user names, mobile phone numbers, email addresses, passwords for databases, IP addresses and more. It is all a part of what the collective is calling OpHongKong and they vow these actions will continue until Hongkongers demands are met and Hong Kong is free. This writer...

**#5** [Time To Get Serious 4  Focus On dApps](https://steemit.com/@flaxz/d1gridi3yhd)  --  **by @flaxz with a current reward of 6 SBD**
    
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>a In this video I continue my series on CTPtalk and Dtube, Time To Get Serious, and here I talk about what dApps I am using and will focus on going forward. By listing the dApps Decentralized Applications that I am using, I can also be more focused on the ones that I do use and see where I might have to adjust something and get more productive. 1. CTPtalk condenser So I am using this one to edit some of my posts and to engage with this tribe, and for sharing the posts and videos I pu...

**#6** [PASSENGERS 2016 Review](https://steemit.com/@smokerings/passengers-2016-review)  --  **by @smokerings with a current reward of 5 SBD**
    
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> Movie Poster Theres been quite a lot of criticism towards this movie, but in my opinion such criticism is mostly unwarranted. Its actually a pretty good film. Its a scifi movie about a spaceship travelling to a new colony planet called Homestead II. It carries 5000 passengers plus a crew. However as the journey will take 120 years everyone on board is asleep in pods, only due to wake up shortly before they reach the colony. One passenger, Jim Preston Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy, ...

**#7** [Healthier than bacon  Steak  Eggs](https://steemit.com/@bytzz/healthier-than-bacon-steak-and-eggs)  --  **by @bytzz with a current reward of 5 SBD**
    
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> It was great to have someone cooking for me. Thanks Mom! But where I live now they have something else. They call it bacon but Its not the same. So I decided to do a different thing. classpullright yeah I broke the yoke so sue me. I had eaten Steak and Eggs in my teens and it was good! They used to make it with skirt steak. So I decided I would make my plate look like bacon and eggs, but taste like skirt steak and eggs. As I said in my a post, I am fighting high bloo...

**#8** [Cybersecurtiy... why it is absolutely not surprising that AI is the new battleground!](https://steemit.com/@doifeellucky/cybersecurtiy-why-it-is-absolutely-not-surprising-that-ai-ist-the-new-battleground)  --  **by @doifeellucky with a current reward of 5 SBD**
    
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> Things move fast in many tech fields but especially in IT security and AI. So, no wonder that if you put both together in the mix you get a whole new universe of threat and defense ideasconcepts! Its not the first time that AI makes the limelight in context of new AI driven cybersecurity threats but with machine learning and general ANI artificial narrow intelligence tool sets and methods it seems that we are moving to the direction and level of script kiddie use of AI based attacks a...

**#9** [My Splinterlands Epic Battle Thorns attack and defense at the same time.](https://steemit.com/@markjason/my-splinterlands-epic-battle-thorns-attack-and-defense-at-the-same-time)  --  **by @markjason with a current reward of 5 SBD**
    
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> Hello everyone! Here I am again sharing one of my epic batte in steemmonsterssplinterlands, this time the my monsters with thorn ability saved the day, yes what you read is right monsters because in this epic battle I used two monsters with thorn ability to do both offense and defense. Check the video of my battle below Prediction If you watch my video you can see that I used my monsters with thorn ability to protect the back and the front of my deck because I predicted that my en...

**#10** [You may be leaving, but Im staying.... So sell me your steem!](https://steemit.com/@welshstacker/you-may-be-leaving-but-i-m-staying-so-sell-me-your-steem)  --  **by @welshstacker with a current reward of 5 SBD**
    
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> A very quick one today folks Is anyone selling steem? If youve reached the end of the line and want an easy out, Im offering to buy your steem for cash. This obviously works best if you are a UK resident as we can just exchange and I can pay you through PayPal or bank transfer without incurring any fees. If you happen to live outside of the UK and still want to sell up, then any fees incurred will have to be on your end. Steem is floating around the 0.105 price range and althou...



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