## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
    
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **2 SBD and 207 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-2020-01-07), 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** [Balance  Development Updates](https://steemit.com/@splinterlands/balance-and-development-updates)  --  **by @splinterlands with a current reward of 38 SBD**
    
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> We want to wish a very happy new year to all of our players and supporters and share with you a few updates to kick off what looks to be a very exciting year in the Splinterlands! First and foremost, we have some card balance updates to announce. We know many of you have been asking for these for a while now, but we didnt want to do too much over the holidays when a lot of the team wasnt available and we also wanted to take our time with the changes to make sure we get them right. We wan...

**#2** [Finally Finished Darksiders 3 Cons](https://steemit.com/@gooddream/finally-finished-darksiders-3-cons)  --  **by @gooddream with a current reward of 21 SBD**
    
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>This is one of the better Playstation Plus games of the past year and honestly, just this one title makes the 3 month subscription price that I had at the time almost worth the price on its own. I originally put it down because I thought it was too difficult, but then I played Nioh for a while and then nothing seemed difficult at all. Upon rejoining the fray I ended up completing the game just 3 days later and it was a wonderful experience. However, this game is not without its flaws an...

**#3** [Australia, Oceania  Africa  Weekly RoundUp 98](https://steemit.com/@travelfeed/australia-oceania-africa-weekly-round-up-98)  --  **by @travelfeed with a current reward of 20 SBD**
    
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>Welcome to todays weekly Travelfeed Australia, Oceania Africa roundup!Ready to go on an adventure with us? We know its Monday and its hard to leave the weekend behind, however we would like to ease your way into the new week with the mesmerising posts submitted on a and via the travelfeed tag.The BEST posts for Australia, Oceania AfricaA quick recap the post rewards of this curation post will be distributed as followsEach featured author is set as a 13 beneficiary of this post;The rest ...

**#4** [A COTTAGE BY THE RIVER  26 a night OYSTERS included](https://steemit.com/@waybeyondpadthai/4fw1t7f3002)  --  **by @waybeyondpadthai with a current reward of 18 SBD**
    
>a After all the fun and delicious seafood treats at the authentic fisherman island Koh Phitak, Chumphon, Thailand. We head to Arunothai beach to stop by our favorite fried chicken spot. Then, ended up spending a night in the area. A cottage by the river just 2 mins motorbike ride away. Were so lucky finding the place. Its just right by the river Pak Nam Tako. Beautiful nature, best sunset, and sunrise, they say. The host at A cottage by the river Baan Mai Plai Nam was the kindest. Som...

**#5** [FutureDiary  06 January 2030  A panic in Cardiff](https://steemit.com/@pennsif/futurediary-06-january-2030-acting-president-sworn-in-nato-s-over-and-the-solar-dragon-comes-to-life)  --  **by @pennsif with a current reward of 12 SBD**
    
> classpullright This is going to be a short one. We had to rush to Cardiff today I missed the end of Elsies birthday party. Izzy called Valentina all in a panic about four this afternoon. Her partner had been arrested and she didnt know what to do. Valentina messaged me just as we were bringing out the cake for Elsie. I had to make my excuses and dash home to pick up Vallie. The heavy rain had caused a landslip on the A470 going over the Brecon Beacons so we had to take a detour and w...

**#6** [2020 Improving My Vision and Acuity](https://steemit.com/@artemislives/2020-improving-my-vision-and-acuity)  --  **by @artemislives with a current reward of 10 SBD**
    
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>In the great scheme of Life, everything IS already manifest and existing somewhere in the great, soupy void, and it is my vibration, my vision and my ability to see possibility that changes, or creates, anything. So what am I already doing differently in 2020? I am changing the vantage point from which I choose to see things, and changing what I choose to focus my eyes, my energy and my time on. Its a bit like waking from sleep and rubbing your eyes until the blur clears so you can SEE wh...

**#7** [Some Rumbling Thoughts of NonSteem users.....](https://steemit.com/@rehan12/yf9bttejppm)  --  **by @rehan12 with a current reward of 10 SBD**
    
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>a Hello Steem users How hard it is to explain the basics of Steem to others NonStem users. Well sometimes it is real easy while sometimes it is a real pain. But however there are many obligations and words of others that needs to be sorted out while explaining about steem to that person. But however what U do really think it is not possible to force anyone to be on Steem Blockchain not that I do it. What I usually try to do is, deliver the message and the rest is upto them. Besides,...

**#8** [Winter tale of Urikbel, Uzbekistan](https://steemit.com/@damm-steemit/winter-tale-of-urikbel-uzbekistan)  --  **by @damm-steemit with a current reward of 9 SBD**
    
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> Hello! Last time I talked about my trips around Uzbekistan more than four months ago. During this time I went to a beautiful place called Zaamin I already wrote about it in previous posts. After over two months I finally opened the season of winter trips. Unfortunately in recent years winter in Uzbekistan does not please us with snow. The temperature is almost always positive. Just recently it was already 15 degrees Celcium. In December and January it only snowed two or three times and m...

**#9** [Ubuntu Touch QA 66  Marius playing around with Focal](https://steemit.com/@ubports/ubuntu-touch-q-and-a-66-or-marius-playing-around-with-focal)  --  **by @ubports with a current reward of 9 SBD**
    
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> iframe width560 height315 frameborder0 allowaccelerometer; autoplay; encryptedmedia; gyroscope; pictureinpicture allowfullscreen a for the Audioonly version of the QA? The show was hosted by Marius, Flo and Dalton. Various memebers of the community have gone to the CCC event. Jan gave a talk there today. The sessions on Linux on mobile were all oversubscribed. That bodes well, as those attending are serious players. Aaron gave a talk on Axolotl, our Signal client. Hopefully we will g...

**#10** [Workshop Improvement  Ceiling Mounted Air Filter  WEN 3speed](https://steemit.com/@ccssonsworkshop/workshop-improvement-ceiling-mounted-air-filter-wen-3-speed)  --  **by @ccssonsworkshop with a current reward of 9 SBD**
    
>WEN 3Speed Remote Controlled Air Filtration System Setup and InstallThoughts In this video I show you the details of the WEN 3Speed Remote Controlled Air Filtration System model 3410. Including whats in the box, how to set it up and how I installed it. I also do a basic sound test to try and demonstrate how quiet this air filtration system is. It is very quiet. Hopefully this video helps out those of you who might be considering one of these types of air filters. I am looking forward to th...



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