## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
    
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **20 SBD and 332 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-2019-11-21), 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** [Its time for the voting system to end.](https://steemit.com/@tcpolymath/it-s-time-for-the-voting-system-to-end)  --  **by @tcpolymath with a current reward of 13 SBD**
    
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> This will be my final post on Steem. Ive turned off voting on all of my accounts, redirected the customers of ottermaker and heronsunlimited to Discord and my website, simplified my witness votes, and Im generally shutting down most things. Oddly enough Ive been powering up again, and expect to continue, because I have profitable use for resource credits making custom JSONS and ignoring all the bullshit. This decision has been coming for a while, but the catalyst for it was the fact tha...

**#2** [I Wrote A Waiver Already Freeing In Freeing My Nurses, Doctors, And The Hospital The Responsibility In What Dialysis Settings I Wanted For Them To Do ](https://steemit.com/@cryptopie/i-wrote-a-waiver-already-freeing-in-freeing-my-nurses-doctors-and-the-hospital-the-responsibility-in-what-dialysis-settings-i)  --  **by @cryptopie with a current reward of 12 SBD**
    
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> Just For Everything To Go Smoothly Tomorrow Today I actually wrote a letter of a waiver which states that I wanted my dialysis settings to be set at 250 mL per minute with its blood pump plus the fluids that they have to take off from my body so that I could reach my desired weight and this will make me feel much better, at ease, with better strength, and of course an improved breathing. The last time was just full of drama where my nurse who I think is just scared for what I wanted to h...

**#3** [Acid Plays Diablo 3 Hardcore Monk 3rd times the charm](https://steemit.com/@acidyo/gnveuccr)  --  **by @acidyo with a current reward of 10 SBD**
    
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> Watch on 3Speak As you may see from the length of the video, no early deaths or realizations that we arent in hardcore this time! We went with Monk as he has some good abilities to not get stuck behind creatures and die that way and also some healing and other fun stuff. I decided to go with the Torment difficulty rank 5 as going any lower would seem like it wouldnt be a challenge and the fun thing with this is that already in this 1.5h video we had a lot of close encounters. H...

**#4** [I Feel Rich bc Im not in debt! ](https://steemit.com/@skramatters/i-feel-rich-bc-im-not-in-debt-39xm5ifw)  --  **by @skramatters with a current reward of 9 SBD**
    
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> Im not about to disclose the details of my financial history on an immutable platform. But, I will gladly show off this screenshot that is an enormous victory for me in my battle versus the man. Life is a trip, and mine has been a loooong strange one. Ive experienced sky high highs, and the lowest of lows. Of course there are a small minority that have me beat on either side of the spectrum, but not many. I have lived like a rock star thats on the cover of the Rolling Stone. I have also...

**#5** [Film Review Tales from the Darkside The Movie 1990](https://steemit.com/@janenightshade/film-review-tales-from-the-darkside-the-movie-1990)  --  **by @janenightshade with a current reward of 8 SBD**
    
> Three greats of horror literature and film Stephen King, George Romero, and Michael McDowell team up on a pretty good horror anthology from the early 90s. Tales From the Darkside The Movie 1990, directed by John Harrison; starring Debbie Harry, Christian Slater, Robert Klein, William Hickey, Rae Dawn Chong, James Remar, Matthew Lawrence, Julianne Moore, and Steve Buscemi. This film is based on the popular 80s series of the same title, created by George Romero. It also belongs to a shor...

**#6** [Reminiscing travel moments at Enugu](https://steemit.com/@mickyscofield/reminiscing-travel-moments-at-enugu-8c7efca789c8f)  --  **by @mickyscofield with a current reward of 8 SBD**
    
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>Its a travel time again...How much I love to tour around the world oops! Finances limits my planned trips. Hopefully, with time I will overcome it. So I had pansharpen my camera for some striking amazing shots. Enugu is located in South eastern Nigeria but the state has some amazing distinct Geography and relief compared to all other states with Southeast Nigeria. Great mountainous landscape with striking awesome view from the peak of the mountain. I had intentions to stand at the Mounta...

**#7** [Introspection  Heroes Part 1 The Engineers](https://steemit.com/@phoenix32/introspection-heroes-part-1-the-engineers)  --  **by @phoenix32 with a current reward of 8 SBD**
    
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>Ive been taking stock of my life, as I am on the cusp of literally packing up once again to completely move to somewhere I have no idea exactly where I will be landing. And in an effort to kind of sidestep having to think about what is in store for me one month from now, I decided to be a bit introspective. Plus, the depression makes me need to look inside of myself. So heres a bit of a peek under the hood. There are a number of characters from the different literature that I find that I ab...

**#8** [Bozzlife wednesdaywalk and some more downvote talk](https://steemit.com/@bozz/bozzlife-wednesdaywalk-and-some-more-downvote-talk)  --  **by @bozz with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
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> classpullleft Yesterday, I wrote this post detailing my e into the Chicken Sandwich Wars, and some downvoting that has been taking place because of steembasicincome. While I encourage you to read my post if you havent already, more importantly, I think you should take a look at the comments from that post yesterday. There was some really great discussion and josephsavage referenced some conversation that has been taking place in the Steem Basic Income server. I was hoping to get a cl...

**#9** [Im a big fan of photo books. I used to make many of them. I made at least one ...](https://steemit.com/@adetorrent/appics-v1-appics-im-46417)  --  **by @adetorrent with a current reward of 5 SBD**
    
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>... a month until Apple decided to discontinue the service I was using. The Apple service was very easy to use to create simple, yet beautiful, photo books at affordable prices. Now I use various other services, but not as frequently as I used to since theyre not necessarily as intuitive or affordable. The reason why I prefer the books to traditional albums of just photos, is that I can add context to the photos. As such, I write short blurbs about the photos so that when I come back ma...

**#10** [Win, lose or draw, dont mess with my Manticore!](https://steemit.com/@welshstacker/win-lose-or-draw-don-t-mess-with-my-manticore)  --  **by @welshstacker with a current reward of 5 SBD**
    
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> Once again, the fine people over at steemmonsters have asked us to SHARE YOUR BATTLE! This is a weekly contest, run by them, to allow us less creative folks to share a favourite battle using a specific monster or ability, and be in contention to receive an upvote. For this weeks contest, they want to see how we use thorns Thorns can be very useful, and when used in the correct situation, it can actually be used to take out an opponents monsters by just being attacked! With that in...



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-2019-11-21) 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-2019-46).


## Your Customized Top List

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