## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
    
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **41 SBD and 500 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-2019-12-23), 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** [AskSteem What are your thoughts on ghostwriters?](https://steemit.com/@acidyo/asksteem-what-are-your-thoughts-on-ghostwriters)  --  **by @acidyo with a current reward of 32 SBD**
    
>I had a discussion recently with another steemian and curator in many different projects about ghostwriters. This started after I noticed a certain account who just magically became better at englishspelling over night so much so that I suspected it to be plagiarising but after not being able to find any sources of plagiarism I had to conclude that the author must have someone else write posts for him now. The curator I discussed it with said she thought ghostwriting was okay and that many ...

**#2** [A Geeky Dads Movie Guide To Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker 2019](https://steemit.com/@hanshotfirst/a-geeky-dad-s-movie-guide-to-star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-2019)  --  **by @hanshotfirst with a current reward of 32 SBD**
    
>When J.J. Abrams set out to make The Rise of Skywalker, I do not know if he realized the enormous challenge he was about to face. Not only was he attempting to finish off a story that an entire generation treated as their baby Yoda, he had a colossal asteroid field full of obstacles to overcome. The odds of him successfully navigating this asteroid field was approximately three thousand seven hundred and twenty to one! Sadly, The Rise of Skywalker was not the one. Source Lets take a lo...

**#3** [eSteem Monthly Guest Curation Program 12](https://steemit.com/@esteemapp/esteem-monthly-guest-curation-program-12)  --  **by @esteemapp with a current reward of 18 SBD**
    
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> The 11th edition of the eSteem Monthly Guest Curation Program was a grand success, and it was a really tough job to pick curators from all the great applications that we received. In the end, an awesome set of Guest Curators joined our team and did a fantastic job during their term. It is now time to commence the 12th edition of the Guest Curation Program, giving a chance for new eSteemians to learn the ropes of curation and in the process also grow their own profiles on the blockchain ...

**#4** [ShowCase Sunday  Two antiposts in one](https://steemit.com/@soyrosa/showcase-sunday-or-two-anti-posts-in-one)  --  **by @soyrosa with a current reward of 17 SBD**
    
>In August 2019 sndbox created the antipost challenge They wanted youus to make a post that actually was not a post. Now, ironically, one of my favourite posts on all of Steem came from that challenge, and was done by voronoi Anti Post Pro Scroll... Now, thinking about that concept still brings up ideas, so maybe I shouldve spend my time working on these instead of typing up what I did in the past, but here it is, on ShowCase Sunday, my two antiposts What IS a Post? 2 Originals...

**#5** [Free love, organic veggies and canyon pools in Valle Gran Rey ](https://steemit.com/@yannay/free-love-organic-veggies-and-canyon-pools-in-valle-gran-rey)  --  **by @yannay with a current reward of 16 SBD**
    
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>a altFree love, organic veggies and canyon pools in Valle Gran Rey Read Free love, organic veggies and canyon pools in Valle Gran Rey on TravelFeed.io for the best experiencehr altApproaching La Gomera, Canary islands, as the morning wakes up Ive arrived here after a night sail. I left the previous evening from the south tip of Gran Canaria, the main island of the canary archipelago. From a place called Anfi del Mar, but thats a different story... altIt will be a bright new day. ...

**#6** [Uncle Buck film The film that made Home Alone](https://steemit.com/@gooddream/uncle-buck-film-the-film-that-made-home-alone)  --  **by @gooddream with a current reward of 15 SBD**
    
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>Its the Christmas Season and almost certainly Macaulay Culkin is getting his annual paycheck for the only film he ever really needed to be in to live a pretty comfortable life forevermore. It is worth knowing that had it not been for his supporting role in a movie made just one year earlier, it is very conceivable that he would not have been cast in the iconic Christmas film that is Home Alone, and that movie was Uncle Buck. source Ol Culkin, worried about who is on the other side of a ...

**#7** [Almond Joy Cookies Easy Baking](https://steemit.com/@thekitchenfairy/ovapr73co2g)  --  **by @thekitchenfairy with a current reward of 11 SBD**
    
>a Hi Guys! Not long til Christmas is here, are you in the Naughty or Nice list, you think? We recently watched Noelle on Disney, and my 5 yo he will be 6 this Christmas eve! said, next year we will be The Kringles. Yep, he wants to be Santa Claus and delivers presents to kids around the world I told him, lets see. Who knows maybe I will win 20 million dollars lottery, right? For now, lets just deliver some cookies as a start 2 cans sweetened coconut condensed milk 195 ml 2 c df...

**#8** [Where Are We And Looking Forward A Bit](https://steemit.com/@taskmaster4450/qkqspffn)  --  **by @taskmaster4450 with a current reward of 10 SBD**
    
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> Watch on 3Speak We came a long way in the 2010s with blockchain and cryptocurrency. As we enter our second decade, we are going to see a lot more expansion. This decade saw the implementation of blockchain and crypto. The next phase is going to bring greater adoption and higher level development. With many of the pieces of the foundation in place, it is time to move to the second story. We see this across the board with many blockchain platforms. The next few years are going...

**#9** [Tate Modern drawing event with DADA](https://steemit.com/@opheliafu/tate-modern-drawing-event-with-dada)  --  **by @opheliafu with a current reward of 10 SBD**
    
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>A few weeks ago, on November 29th, I joined DADA at the Tate Modern in London as we created an interactive live drawing performance inspired by the work of Nam June Paik called Screens an exploration. We were joined online by artists from around the world who were taking part in the live drawing event. It was an interesting evening, and I had the opportunity to meet some great artists and listen to talks about the digital arts. You can read about the event, see more work by the artists invol...

**#10** [Andrew Yang His insight into the cryptocurrency industry and how he plans to regulate it.](https://steemit.com/@wiseagent/andrew-yang-his-insight-into-the-cryptocurrency-industry-and-how-he-plans-to-regulate-it)  --  **by @wiseagent with a current reward of 9 SBD**
    
> CNN A few years ago, when the blockchain system and the cryptocurrencies emerged, the financial market was faced with greater innovation than they could measure, and all of this happened very quickly and very broadly, with no control over it. establish what its limits would be and how it would all work. The result is that so far, a lot of things works in the illegality Andre Yang plans to change that. Last month... The businessman, philanthropist, lawyer and candidate for the Democrat...



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