## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
    
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **18 SBD and 447 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-2020-01-17), 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** [Twitter activity](https://steemit.com/@acidyo/twitter-activity)  --  **by @acidyo with a current reward of 33 SBD**
    
 <div class="pull-right"><img src="https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmV3UHonGFxRqJMmnoZRGH6EdVKRTNPBRYh56Qd9qset29/image.png" /></div>

>One of my new years resolutions was to try a bit more with Twitter, mainly of course to raise awareness of Steem, so far so good but I cant say I have been trying a lot so will try to improve on that. I am glad to see the posh initiative make such a huge splash on the twitter movement and I am hoping it will continue to do well, of course I also have to thank all other Steemians who have been sharing, interacting, following other Steemians, etc, even before the posh initiative. Special thank...

**#2** [Europe  Weekly RoundUp 99](https://steemit.com/@travelfeed/europe-weekly-round-up-99)  --  **by @travelfeed with a current reward of 17 SBD**
    
 <div class="pull-right"><img src="https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmddLwJ5BMFjpfENati4fkdD8W7sRR6qj2AYEZCj3Nj6QJ" /></div>

>a Europe Weekly RoundUp 99 on TravelFeed.io for the best experiencehr Welcome to todays weekly Travelfeed Europe roundup!Europe as a travel destination has so much to offer, sometimes its kind of hard what country or city to choose for your next vacation. Get inspired by the following travel articles shared on a and learn about some of the best spots of the continent.The BEST posts for EuropeA quick recap the post rewards of this curation post will be distributed as followsEach featur...

**#3** [December Holiday A trip to the Kalahari  Part 1](https://steemit.com/@craigcampbell/december-holiday-a-trip-to-the-kalahari-part-1)  --  **by @craigcampbell with a current reward of 13 SBD**
    
 <div class="pull-right"><img src="https://img.travelfeed.io/craigcampbell%2F20200117T080433703Z-IMG_3348.jpg" /></div>

>a altDecember Holiday A trip to the Kalahari Part 1Read December Holiday A trip to the Kalahari Part 1 on TravelFeed.io for the best experiencehr Hey guys! So I guess this is officially my first proper post, other than my recent introduction. To start my travel blog journey with you, I will take you on a short trip with me to the wild Kalahari more specifically, the Kgalagadi National Park. This will be a series of posts, and you will get to see what my small group of friends myself, ...

**#4** [Body Image and Self Esteem](https://steemit.com/@mrhaldar/body-image-and-self-esteem)  --  **by @mrhaldar with a current reward of 11 SBD**
    
 <div class="pull-right"><img src="https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQWpDpey1XUEK7U9ChH5k31t5wnRENKZB5MkYJNMFSWSQ/self-love-3969644_1920.jpg" /></div>

> source In todays selfie and social media culture, it seems like everything is about our appearance, how we look rather who we are and how we feel. And these growing things have a direct link with our selfesteem. We have to continuously prove ourselves that we are good looking, we have a fit body, a perfect life. But as thats not always true we are making ourselves emotionally vulnerable. We are the one who is responsible to low down our selfesteem. Do you have someone close who is fac...

**#5** [A daycation at Santa Cruz Wharf California baby!](https://steemit.com/@waybeyondpadthai/a-daycation-at-santa-cruz-wharf-california-baby)  --  **by @waybeyondpadthai with a current reward of 10 SBD**
    
 <div class="pull-right"><img src="https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRMJckCF5GpABWvHGLGym6ZQRSMCkUBnvMcPsRBQVZ1B3/image.png" /></div>

>a altA daycation at Santa Cruz Wharf California baby!Read A daycation at Santa Cruz Wharf California baby! on TravelFeed.io for the best experiencehr  I have a bit of a getaway spending time in Santa Cruz by myself for a few days. Staying at this lovely 130 yearsoldVictorianhouse hostel If you want to know more about the hostel, heres my hostel review. From the hostel to the wharf, there are quite a good amount of Victorian houses around the area so its a nice 10 mins walk to this ...

**#6** [Lets bring Vitalik Buterin back to Steemit!](https://steemit.com/@stealthtrader/let-s-bring-vitalik-buterin-back-to-steemit)  --  **by @stealthtrader with a current reward of 9 SBD**
    
 <div class="pull-right"><img src="https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTPJFLyscZtp2je5i92VKMqcMZEjYaUaq4Mazom8CKT39/174C5F53-D7F7-4332-BB84-CBC9D96F1F6D.jpeg" /></div>

>Since the recent news of Splinterlands now working with the Ethereum blockchain came out, I wanted to reach out to Vitalik to basically welcome him to the Steem blockchain. Now this would not be the first time on Steemit for Vitalik though, because he actually joined Steemit over 3 years ago like myself as well back when there were only a few thousand people even on here! Now he only made like 0.33 on this post, and I think it was because everyone was skeptical of every new user back th...

**#7** [Trees For Bees 3 Vernonia Bitter Leaf](https://steemit.com/@artemislives/mfgthnte)  --  **by @artemislives with a current reward of 8 SBD**
    
 <div class="pull-right"><img src="https://img.3speakcontent.online/mfgthnte/post.png" /></div>

> Watch on 3Speak Introducing bee keeping to indigenous Karen refugee displaced people has me planning NOW and thinking about long term food supply for the bees in the years ahead. In the pristine jungles along the Thai Burma border, the wild bees naturally hibernate and live off the honey in their hives when there is little food about. Our challenge is to extend those periods of flowering available food sources by carefully adding flowering trees around the edges of refugee camps,...

**#8** [Driving in Thailand as a foreigner](https://steemit.com/@jack.russelle/driving-in-thailand-as-a-foreigner)  --  **by @jack.russelle with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
 <div class="pull-right"><img src="https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTimBx9Toa8c3gUdy8Lc63bjyB12n3juLkRXjgkMAsuqc/1474697863_1-org.jpg" /></div>

>Thailand has a welldeserved bad reputation for being really dangerous to drive in. I have heard that as far as road deaths are concerned it is routinely one of the worst in the world. It is easy to see why if you look around because people just kind of do whatever they want and no police are ever going to do anything about it. source The largest offense that I notice is that people on motorbikes routinely overload the bike I see bikes with 34 people on them regularly and more often th...

**#9** [A freaky village on a freaky sheep ](https://steemit.com/@silviabeneforti/a-freaky-village-on-a-freaky-sheep-)  --  **by @silviabeneforti with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
 <div class="pull-right"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/HmWhQ78.jpg" /></div>

> Some days ago I shered with you an ink drawing about a village on the body of a sheep and today it was time to work on a oil painting based on that idea! I started thinking to illustrate a poetic image where a little girl is walking around on a big sheep of mine and so this is the final result width5184 height3888 Im exercising myself on illustrations and so I need to put more elements on my paintings. I started working on the shape of the sheep with the houses on her body and after I wor...

**#10** [My ArtVenture Acrylic painting Johnny In search of father](https://steemit.com/@stef1/myartventureacrylicpaintingjohnnyinsearchoffather-wyjzcx6q4j)  --  **by @stef1 with a current reward of 7 SBD**
    
 <div class="pull-right"><img src="http://artventure.club/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/a1DSC04724.jpg" /></div>

> classsizefull wpimage4336 alt width780 height945 br ; ;; Today I wanted to present you two things ; First of all my last painting. It is already a while ago since I was planning to do Sailing Ship but never had mood or how we call inspiration that is also maybe because I do not have any Acrylic paper anymore. But when my Watercolor block was empty I saw a cardboard of that block, I love using such hard cardboard for Acrylic works and that was a time. While yesterday I saw my reference ...



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-2020-01-17) 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-2020-02).


## Your Customized Top List

If you liked this top list, maybe you are also interested in the trending pages for different tags without bid bots and other cool custom adjustments to your feed. In this case I can recommend you the awesome frontend developed by @jga: [HERE IS YOUR PERSONALIZED STEEMIT FEED](https://joticajulian.github.io/custom-feed/). 

## You can Help and Contribute

By upvoting and resteeming this top list, you help covering the server costs and finance further development and improvements. 

**NEW**: You may further show your support for me and all my daily truffle picks by [**following my curation trail**](https://steemauto.com/dash.php?trail=trufflepig&i=1) on SteemAuto!

## Delegate and Invest in the Bot

If you feel generous, you can delegate Steem Power to me and boost my daily upvotes on the truffle posts in my other top list. In return, I will provide you with a *small* compensation for your trust in me and your locked Steem Power. **Half of my daily SBD and STEEM income will be paid out to all my delegators** proportional to their Steem Power share. Payouts will start 3 days after your delegation.

Click on one of the following links to delegate **[2](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=3930.739%20VESTS), [5](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=9826.848%20VESTS), [10](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=19653.696%20VESTS), [20](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=39307.392%20VESTS), [50](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=98268.479%20VESTS), [100](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=196536.958%20VESTS), [200](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=393073.916%20VESTS), [500](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=982684.79%20VESTS), [1000](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=1965369.58%20VESTS), [2000](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=3930739.16%20VESTS),** or even **[5000 Steem Power](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=9826847.9%20VESTS)**. Thank You!

Cheers,

![trufflepig](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SmokinCaterpillar/TrufflePig/master/img/trufflepig17.png)

*`TrufflePig`*