Here is how the Steemit Trending Page would look like without Bid Bots and Self Votes! (06.01.2020)
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0.000 HBDHere is how the Steemit Trending Page would look like without Bid Bots and Self Votes! (06.01.2020)
## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **11 SBD and 487 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-2020-01-06), 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** [Original Content Decentralized Community Announcement](https://steemit.com/@acidyo/original-content-decentralized-community-announcement) -- **by @acidyo with a current reward of 71 SBD**
> OCD, formerly known as Operation Curation Delegation now has its own community on the beta site! From now on we will be focusing our curation and other initiatives such as posh on our community. If you havent checked out the beta site yet, all you have to do is login and hit the subscribe button to your favorite communities. Heres a link to the OCD community During this shift we will still be curating users we follow with ocdb former whitelist and we will still be curating the posh and oc...
**#2** [Baby Boomers set to pass on massive wealth to Bitcoin generation](https://steemit.com/@jrcornel/baby-boomers-set-to-pass-on-massive-wealth-to-bitcoin-generation) -- **by @jrcornel with a current reward of 15 SBD**
> The baby boomer generation, combined with the silent generation, currently holds the vast majority of the United States wealth. That may not be that surprising to most and it also may not be that surprising that neither of those generations are particularly interested in bitcoin as an investment... However, millennials very much are Source And that is what should be interesting to most of us.... According to a report put out by CoinShares, millennials are going to inherit close to 7...
**#3** [How to Prepare Your Eyelids for Eyeshadow BeginnerFriendly Professional Technique](https://steemit.com/@mvd/cqahc2e5) -- **by @mvd with a current reward of 12 SBD**
>a Having discoloured or oily eyelids can quickly mess up your eyeshadow, so its important to know what steps to follow to get the best results. The tools needed to prepare your eyelids in a professional manner An eyeshadow primer A light base colour Skintone colour A big flat eyeshadow brush Step 1 Apply a good eyeshadow primer Most eyeshadow primers are transparent and, consequently, wont help you with discolouration. Therefore, starting off with an eyeshadow primer will help yo...
**#4** [Isnt trending awesome?](https://steemit.com/@meno/isn-t-trending-awesome) -- **by @meno with a current reward of 11 SBD**
>Ive been lurking around for a while now. Im not gone, Im just observing. That being said, Its pretty sad to see what the trending people fought for has turned into. Its just a bunch of SBD potato posts, and burnposts with wrong dates. As a well known Steemian once said If Trending is our showcase window, then we should do a better job I guess, we fixed it? No? Sorry to be bitter about it, but, it does seem like those who fought the bots tooth and nail, forgot to take into account the...
**#5** [The Trending page is burning](https://steemit.com/@toofasteddie/the-trending-page-is-burning) -- **by @toofasteddie with a current reward of 11 SBD**
<div class="pull-right"><img src="https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmaUEeXmxu5fJtVZAiAG8UxMvoJoyorSWTatWHvHWGQdig/a.png" /></div>
>Lets be honest guys, last hardfork has solved some problems at the steem blockchain. We managed to get rid of the major bidbots, famous abusers and other blockchain squeezers but... Conversely, some of the Bidbot owners have become curators, which is nice despite I dont notice them lately, surely because I am not the best content creator around however I am a really committed member of our steem blockchain. At the same time, the trending page has become a sort of very weird place where th...
**#6** [My Baby Yoda Molly At Bath Time](https://steemit.com/@bdmillergallery/my-baby-yoda-molly-at-bath-time) -- **by @bdmillergallery with a current reward of 9 SBD**
<div class="pull-right"><img src="https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmVFxBZJv6S7f827M8VPgTdyDCgVkamiFcMj8RH1dRqy5T" /></div>
> Source Sharing one last photo before bed. We gave Molly and Pepper baths yesterday before friends came to visit. They smelled a little doggy if you know what I mean. They needed one, but Molly doesnt have much fat on her little 7 pound body, so we quickly snatch her up and fold her into a soft towel. I snapped a quick photo, because she looked so cute. After looking at it later, I think she looks like a baby Yoda. haha.. Heres a nice blurry picture of me holding her.. We got her all ...
**#7** [Selling A Dream Or People Are Too Lazy](https://steemit.com/@erikah/selling-a-dream-or-people-are-too-lazy) -- **by @erikah with a current reward of 9 SBD**
<div class="pull-right"><img src="https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmQ7d7HTLVk5GpE2CX34XivVL4Y2hf82RjzQR33uZopJaz" /></div>
> We live in an era in which selling something is not easy. Im not talking about countries where theres war and everything is scarce but about developed countries where theres plenty of everything.If you have some basic knowledge of marketing, you know what they say. The best salesman is the one who can sell sand in the desert and this is true. If you can sell something in a saturated market you are king. Thats the situation in the weight loss market to name one. There are so many products ...
**#8** [FutureDiary 05 January 2030 Acting President sworn in, NATOs Over, and the Solar Dragon comes to life](https://steemit.com/@pennsif/futurediary-05-january-2030-acting-president-sworn-in-nato-s-over-and-the-solar-dragon-comes-to-life) -- **by @pennsif with a current reward of 8 SBD**
> classpullright Theres not been much news on Trump yet, but it seems hes going to be out of action for a bit. Vice President Sandford was sworn in as Acting President today. I must admit I dont know anything about Sandford but hes quite a bit younger than Trump and I saw a couple of mentions that he likes trail hiking so maybe hell be a bit more planet friendly if hes at the helm for any length of time. I dont think its going to make much odds for us in the UK. Sandford Im sure wont make...
**#9** [Skinwhitening trend ravages Senegalese women](https://steemit.com/@rt-international/boyih001ojo) -- **by @rt-international with a current reward of 8 SBD**
>a Senegalese girls want to look like Europeans. Advertisements in magazines and on billboards display lightskinned models, insisting that this is what men like. Pharmacists have come to the rescue of fashionconscious women. They offer pills and skinlightening creams, but rarely warn the buyers of the possible catastrophic side effects of using them. These products have long been banned worldwide, but that doesnt stop Senegalese women bent on flaunting a lighter skin shade. Subscribe ...
**#10** [Beautiful Sublime Sunday Actifit January 5 2020](https://steemit.com/@jayna/actifit-jayna-20200106t054619003z) -- **by @jayna with a current reward of 7 SBD**
<div class="pull-right"><img src="https://usermedia.actifit.io/020F57F8-0B52-4728-AE80-3679D0425C32637138860571985664" /></div>
>This was one of the most beautiful weekends ever. If you have never experienced the phenomenon I am about to describe, then you will just have to take my word for it that its magical. It goes like this. It is a winter day. There is a good layer of snow on the ground, and the sun has come out and is shining brightly on the snow. You absolutely must wear sunglasses or be blinded. The temperature is just below freezing, and very comfortable with a layer or two, including gloves. And it is dazz...
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