## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
    
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **46 SBD and 1374 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-2019-12-06), 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** [Volunteering How Helping Others ! 12062019](https://steemit.com/@matatu/volunteering-how-helping-others-12-06-2019)  --  **by @matatu with a current reward of 10 SBD**
    
> Volunteering incorporates a positive impact on your community and its great for you as well. Ben, a college first year recruit who did volunteer fundraising work, calls it a winwin circumstance. He says, You are feeling great since youre making a difference others, and the others feel great since theyre getting help. Giving back to your community is important in itself, but making a difference others too offers numerous benefits. For illustration, it can assist you learn more almost yours...

**#2** [Bozzlife Im so excited!](https://steemit.com/@bozz/bozzlife-i-m-so-excited)  --  **by @bozz with a current reward of 10 SBD**
    
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>iframe width560 height315 frameborder0 allowaccelerometer; autoplay; encryptedmedia; gyroscope; pictureinpicture allowfullscreen source I was pretty lucky last week on Thanksgiving to get the opportunity to spend a little bit of time with mrsbozzs cousin. He is the one that got me onto Steemit several years ago and sometimes it is hard to believe that there was every life before Steemit. I was quite apprehensive of joining at first, he explained that Steemit was a place for high quali...

**#3** [Ecotrain QOTW  What Are Your Priorities In Life?  Dtube Response](https://steemit.com/@mattsanthonyit/ai0jo84cked)  --  **by @mattsanthonyit with a current reward of 10 SBD**
    
>a Hello Dtube Community , Today I take part in the ecotrain Question of the Week and the theme goes does What Are Your Priorities In Life?. Without wasting much time here I have some interesting things to share on my priorities. I wanted to be an Engineer that was my first priority in life but I was denied along the way with so many things. When I did my secondary school certificate examination I had very good grades but I had to step down for my Junior brother to climb as well. ...

**#4** [A brief dive into some of the most important protests taking place in the world PART 02 Bolivia.](https://steemit.com/@wiseagent/a-brief-dive-into-some-of-the-most-important-protests-taking-place-in-the-world-part-02-bolivia)  --  **by @wiseagent with a current reward of 9 SBD**
    
> G1 Globo Since the end of the presidential election which took place on October 20 this year, Evo Morales has faced strong resistance from the Chinela population. Beside him are his supporters, but on the opposite side there is a massive part of opponents that are making and making a lot of noise in the country. All this confusion generated by the organized acts in the form of protests gained worldwide repercussion after Morales was declared winner of the dispute and reelected for a n...

**#5** [In 2020, Im resolved to bring the Entire Teams playing Nigerian Professional Football League NPFL to Steem via SportsTalkSocial](https://steemit.com/@uyobong/in-2020-im-resolved-to-bring-the-entire-teams-playing-nigerian-professional-football-league-npfl-to-steem-via-sportstalksocial-gmn1yb5c)  --  **by @uyobong with a current reward of 8 SBD**
    
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> Tweet link Its no more news that sports has a high content consumption rate compared to other categories of content that can be obtained from the internet. Any social media that can win this set of consumers and content Creators would always have a huge traffic. Im very Conscious of this fact, the very reason I decided to get involved in sports related Curation on Steem blockchain with the evergrowing sportstalk tribe. My target enrollees are sports bloggers in Nigeria who are earni...

**#6** [Back To The Drawing Board](https://steemit.com/@adetorrent/back-to-the-drawing-board)  --  **by @adetorrent with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
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>Can you draw a straight line? What about a perfect circle? No? Dont worry, nobody can. Not freehand anyway. Im not even sure they exist in nature. Theres the path of light, which is straight, but thats an abstract concept, not a thing. They are both mathematical concepts like zero and infinity that are intangible. Having said that, the ability to draw what looks like a straight line, or the more difficult perfect circle, is a measure of how much control you have of your drawing hand....

**#7** [Deep in the desert Meet the rusty monsters of steel](https://steemit.com/@koenau/deep-in-the-desert-meet-the-rusty-monsters-of-steel)  --  **by @koenau with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
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> No, the S22 desert road is not of that kind you might think. Just nothing, zero, no people, no cattle, no cars? Wait a minute and look outside your window. No, you dont have a fata morgana. You might see a pale horse as it rears on the side of the road. Its huge! Drive slowly. Now in the middle of a flat desert landscape an giant elephant appears. Just a minute, slowly! Yes, now you can see a TRex and on the horizon a few wild sabertooth tiger. It is the heat? The sun? The lack of water?...

**#8** [Golden Time](https://steemit.com/@dobartim/golden-time)  --  **by @dobartim with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
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> When we sum up all the moments we get one bright spot of our memories dancing in the fiery rain of emotions, the open paths of destiny come on the wings of knowledge and enthusiasm. In your words I feel the wisdom of love that touches the secrets of the heart, you are a genuine passion with the ambition of perfection. The wellknown choices at sober possibilities become the lure of our material happiness, we seek magnificent joy in the calm waters of consciousness. We dress for the winds...

**#9** [Friday travel with my beloved](https://steemit.com/@mdaminulislam/friday-travel-with-my-beloved)  --  **by @mdaminulislam with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
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>Hello friends, How are you all, Hope all are well. Friends, I am Aminul Islam from Tangail district of Bangladesh.Today i went to our village 25 km south of Tangail city.My beloved was with me.Today I will talk to you about this trip to the village.  Friends, Today is Friday. Today is our official holiday in Bangladesh. I went to our village this holiday today.My beloved was with me.Friends, I live in a rented house in Tangail city with my family.We have a village house of our own...

**#10** [Dialysis Time Again Tomorrow Early Morning At 430 AM And It Is Hard To Prepare For It](https://steemit.com/@cryptopie/dialysis-time-again-tomorrow-early-morning-at-4-30-am-and-it-is-hard-to-prepare-for-it)  --  **by @cryptopie with a current reward of 6 SBD**
    
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> I Do Not Like Very Early Dialysis Times It is so early for me in having myself prepare for my dialysis, it is just freakin too early because at 200 AM my mother would already get up and wake me up so I can bathe myself prior to going for my early session. I am just fast if I can do it below 45 minutes but I was always staying at the bathroom 45 minutes or more. So my mother is giving me an allowance of time to have myself cleanedup with at least one hour in the bathroom. It is hard becaus...



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-2019-12-06) 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-2019-48).


## Your Customized Top List

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