## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
    
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **5 SBD and 541 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-2019-12-21), 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** [How did I get here? Why am I still here?  These and other existential questions answered all right here in this post!](https://steemit.com/@isaria/how-did-i-get-here-why-am-i-still-here-these-and-other-existential-questions-answered-all-right-here-in-this-post)  --  **by @isaria with a current reward of 22 SBD**
    
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>    Ive been putting this off all week because actually sitting down to write my thoughts about something gives me existential heartburn, but snook has asked me to do this so I shall. cries Snook made this here posty which asks the following questions How did I get here? Why am I still here? These questions initially struck me as funny because my mind automatically went into existential crisis mode.... WHY AM I HERE??????  Im procrastinating again ....

**#2** [Travel Free visit to the Orange Museum of Art](https://steemit.com/@sunikr/travel-free-visit-to-the-orange-museum-of-art)  --  **by @sunikr with a current reward of 17 SBD**
    
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>a altTravel Free visit to the Orange Museum of ArtRead Travel Free visit to the Orange Museum of Art on TravelFeed.io for the best experiencehr  I went to the Muse de lOrangerie in the Tuileries Garden. If the children get bored with the museum, the children and the boyfriend choose to go to the playground in the Tuileries garden. If you are in Korea, you will be upset and excited about the Lunar New Year holidays, and it is a normal Sunday. Still, living in a city focused on tourism, ...

**#3** [My Actifit Report Card and Update December 20 2019](https://steemit.com/@spectrumecons/actifit-spectrumecons-20191221t114626267z)  --  **by @spectrumecons with a current reward of 14 SBD**
    
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>Hi Everyone, Welcome to another Actifit Report and Update. I tried to keep as active as possible this week but the weather kept me mostly indoors. I went out and did quite a bit of Christmas shopping on Monday and a little more on Friday. I will probably need to go out one more time before Christmas to pick up a few last minute things. I will try to make my next Actifit post a Christmas themed one. I wrote a post summarising my thoughts about the UK Brexit Election. I have mixed feelin...

**#4** [Honke4 Lomography CN 400  No Copyright music](https://steemit.com/@adetorrent/pcfj4m46a9k)  --  **by @adetorrent with a current reward of 13 SBD**
    
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>a Steemians, 2 Christmases ago I was out shooting a vintage Soviet era point and shoot film camera in London. There was this busker who played a cover so well that it got flagged by YouTubes copyright content ID thingy. As a result, I had to take the video down, even though I didnt violate anything. I couldnt be bothered to fight it, so I just set the video as Unlisted on YouTube. Actually, I didnt have to take the video down, they opted to take all the money earned by the video. ...

**#5** [Vietnamese coffee at the Hilltop farm.](https://steemit.com/@eturnerx/vietnamese-coffee-at-the-hilltop-farm)  --  **by @eturnerx with a current reward of 11 SBD**
    
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>Today was time to enjoy some Trung Nguyen coffee made with the phin double layer filter. Trung Nguyen is one of the most famous coffee brands from Vietnam. This blend is called Creative 8. While I sometimes import Vietnamese Ca phe chon coffee for myself, this box was a gift. I was given this at a Christmas party a couple of weeks back where I played Santa for 30 or so school kids. Mormor the Labrador sits out on the deck. Its much too windy out there for coffee. Inside the package ...

**#6** [Oopsie!  Tangled Yarn ](https://steemit.com/@crosheille/oopsie-tangled-yarn)  --  **by @crosheille with a current reward of 8 SBD**
    
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> Yeah...so ya know...that beautiful yarn I just showed you in Knitting with Lace Weight Yarn? Well this IS that yarn. This is my first purchase of handdyed yarn and it comes wrapped in a special way...its called a Hank. Its tied in three places with little pieces of the yarn. Two of the ties just come straight off once the knot is out but the other one is actually connected to the starting piece. So before I knew all this, I took off the tag and layed out the yarn in an oval shape w...

**#7** [Feel The Light Within  Gods Unchained](https://steemit.com/@paxunchained/feel-the-light-within-or-gods-unchained)  --  **by @paxunchained with a current reward of 6 SBD**
    
>Look... Look... Im not your father! 5 in Eth Giveaway, check the video description! I usually dont play Light on Gods Unchained, but my bro Dookis whos an awesome GU player and builds amazing decks hooked me up with this Light deck list. After playing with it a bit i could feel the desperation of my opponents when I was both dealing with what they were putting on the board, as well as playing really tempo favorable cards. Card draw is not an issue here at all, cause most of the times youll...

**#8** [Last Minute ReggaeSteem Brochures for Rastafari Rootzfest 2019](https://steemit.com/@donald.porter/last-minute-reggaesteem-brochures-for-rastafari-rootzfest-2019)  --  **by @donald.porter with a current reward of 5 SBD**
    
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> Printed last minute brochures for the Westmoreland Hemp Ganja Association Booth WHAGFA at Rastafari Rootzfest this year. Last year we featured Digibyte, this year we feature JAHMSTEEM and ReggaeSteem as connected crypto projects. Wait till you see the WHAGFA booth setup later shill city 5,000 people are expected to attend the annual event which includes a performance from Chronixx and culminates with the Ganjamaica Cup Competition on Sunday. At which time Delroy miyard will present reg...

**#9** [Bozzlife A little late to the party Splinterlands season rewards](https://steemit.com/@bozz/bozzlife-a-little-late-to-the-party-splinterlands-season-rewards)  --  **by @bozz with a current reward of 5 SBD**
    
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> I am just now getting around to sharing the cards that I got from my end of season rewards at the beginning of this week. The truth is, there were only a handful that were actually worth sharing, and I also have just had a lot of stuff to say which led to me pushing this post back. My daily quest rewards have also been pretty horrible. I am struggling to get out of the Silver Tier and I am afraid that with the holidays coming it is going to be even harder. I dont know about you guys ...

**#10** [Journey from Doubt to Truth. Through SelfInquiry. WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS CHALLENGE THE STATUS QUO!](https://steemit.com/@jankasparec/journey-from-doubt-to-truth-though-self-inquiry-why-you-should-always-challenge-the-status-quo)  --  **by @jankasparec with a current reward of 5 SBD**
    
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>So I just finished this large painting of sitting Buddha and I decided to share a deeper meaning of it with you. I hope you guys enjoy it. It is also my 4th piece going to Australia this year. To one beautiful master who taught me what mindfulness means and how to practice it. Infinite gratitude for that! There are 7 animals in this painting I am the 8th one red panda, night butterfly, two snails and 3 sleeping bats. I put the bats there because for me, they challenge the status quo,...



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-2019-12-21) 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-2019-50).


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