## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
    
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **16 SBD and 1008 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-2019-12-09), 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** [Proof of Sharing Sunday! POSH](https://steemit.com/@theycallmedan/proof-of-sharing-sunday-posh)  --  **by @theycallmedan with a current reward of 25 SBD**
    
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>Did you make content on Steem this week? Share your Steem post on Twitter and then post a link to your Tweet below for a chance to get upvotes! Any topic is fair game. Low effort postreward farming will not be rewarded will be downvoted. To be eligible for upvotes, you must share your Steem post to Twitter. Use relevant hashtags on your tweets. As an example, if your post is about New York, use the tags NewYork Steem on Twitter. Twitter works much better if you utilize hashtags! ...

**#2** [Tauchain Game Theory... Models... Trust...](https://steemit.com/@dana-edwards/tauchain-game-theory-models-trust)  --  **by @dana-edwards with a current reward of 13 SBD**
    
> In my last post I introduced some concepts for discussion. The main concept was the concept of using models as a facilitator of lateral thinking. Lateral thinking is in my opinion one of the main keys to the success of Bitcoin, of Microsoft, of Apple, of Google, of Amazon. For example Microsoft founder Bill Gates created to my understanding the business model for Microsoft which at the time was groundbreaking. What made Microsoft one of the most profitable companies in history was instead ...

**#3** [Puppets in the community Update 48](https://steemit.com/@arrozymangophoto/puppets-in-the-community-update-48)  --  **by @arrozymangophoto with a current reward of 12 SBD**
    
> I will explain and a little more about what cognitive techniques are all about what the puppet workshop is about in the community. Working with children who live in popular sectors where they are subjected to high rates of family violence, becomes a committed task of not only teaching children about puppetry art, you also need to be very thorough with each child who is a special case. It is normal for children to express attitudes that are reflected through behavior so it is necessary...

**#4** [Basically, but it aint that bad](https://steemit.com/@skramatters/basically-but-it-aint-that-bad-mdlhnhsf)  --  **by @skramatters with a current reward of 12 SBD**
    
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> While Ive never read Brazil or A Handmaidens Tale I am well versed in the other titles. Dystopian doomsday tales are indeed all around and the writing has been on the walls since , well, always. Progress is a grueling process. While things can look quite bleak, its important to take stock of what were evolved from. Im not worried about mongol invaders, viking raids, spanish inquisitions, or even a 4th Reich today. Its true that the world is still fighting over whos god is better, and sadl...

**#5** [Engrave For Affiliate Marketers 3  Posting With Engrave](https://steemit.com/@flaxz/engrave-for-affiliate-marketers-3---posting-with-engrave)  --  **by @flaxz with a current reward of 11 SBD**
    
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> Made in Canva So in this post I want to go more into detail about using Engrave to publish posts on your own domain, as well as Steem and CTPtalk, and if you wonder what Engrave is then its a dApp on the Steem blockchain where you can have your Steem and CTPtalk blog with your own domain name, and I have talked about this dApp in previous posts in this series, what it is and whats the use case for affiliate marketers, and how to set it all up. 1. Engrave For Affiliate Marketers Blogging ...

**#6** [One month later, I still got the SteemFest blues](https://steemit.com/@arcange/one-month-later-i-still-got-the-steemfest-blues)  --  **by @arcange with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
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> SteemFest is over for nearly a month now. As usual, the event has been a blast! Once again, my friend roelandp, and the whole team around him, successfully managed to create a special atmosphere, favoring the interpersonal meetings of the users of Steem which was his initial goal and exchanges around each others projects. I think the choice of Asia and Bangkok was particularly good because it is a cool city that is full of energy and I think it has been contagious for all of us. Of co...

**#7** [Winter Wonderland And Wrong Jingles](https://steemit.com/@adetorrent/winter-wonderland-and-wrong-jingles)  --  **by @adetorrent with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
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> Where did the time go? I dont know how this has happened so quickly, but its nearly Christmas again. It feels like only yesterday I was discussing Yultide with my sister. That was last Christmas. It really feels as though only a week, max, has passed since then. I know you guys across the Atlantic wait till after Thanksgiving to kick off your festivities, but here, Christmas starts the day after Halloween Something that started as an initially failed experiment between 20052007 has ...

**#8** [A brief dive into some of the most important protests taking place in the world PART 03 Iraq.](https://steemit.com/@wiseagent/a-brief-dive-into-some-of-the-most-important-protests-taking-place-in-the-world-part-03-iraq)  --  **by @wiseagent with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
> Reuters Unfortunately, the reality that is impregnated on Iraqi soil is one of the saddest because living conditions in Iraq are one of the most complicated and challenging when compared to a world level and this has been dragging on for decades by more erse motivations. Some countries have similar situations, but Iraq stands out for a longlasting war that has been decimating its people at an increasingly alarming level. This dilemma is not exactly new to those who follow the least bi...

**#9** [Shanghai lights](https://steemit.com/@worldcapture/shanghailights-rdczgospz9)  --  **by @worldcapture with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
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> CameraLensApertureISOShutter S.Focal L. Nikon D750Tamron 2470mm G2 2.8F185020 sec24mm ; Please make sure to watch the photo in Full Screen ; Today I share something pretty different than usual. It was also my first attempt ever to try this style?! of Photography. ; The goal was to find a not moving person with a busy street in the backround to do take a Long Exposure photo of the scene. As you can see, I had my shutter speed at 20 seconds, wich is extremly long if you try to focus on a p...

**#10** [The Solution To Both Customers And Companies Difficulties  Challenges  COSMOCHAIN Marketing DApps](https://steemit.com/@mattsanthonyit/d3ia5bl9e6b)  --  **by @mattsanthonyit with a current reward of 6 SBD**
    
>a Hello STEEM community , Today I am so delighted to join the DApps review on Steemit community initiative by dapplovers and also oracled, State Of The DApps. I will be reviewing the Cosmochain which I called the Solution to both Customers and Companies difficulties and challenges. This has been a major problem most companies face, the problem of customers, data and information. The misuse of information on most companies is been fix up by the help of COSMOCHAIN. It also solves ...



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## Your Customized Top List

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