## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
    
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **21 SBD and 595 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-2020-01-30), 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** [Andrew Yang Says We Need Clear Rules for Cryptocurrency](https://steemit.com/@acidyo/andrew-yang-says-we-need-clear-rules-for-cryptocurrency)  --  **by @acidyo with a current reward of 22 SBD**
    
> Saw this video clip from the Bloomberg Politics Youtube channel on rcryptocurrency today, as many of you know Andrew Yang is a supporter of cryptocurrency and the underlying tech, blockchain. Hes one of the few candidates running for President in 2020 who seems to understand it and its potential and what hes saying is absolutely true. Imagine someone who wants to invest in Steem today for instance, say someone from the U.S. which has more rules and regulations for citizens to even get inv...

**#2** [SPUD X  Do you spud bro?](https://steemit.com/@zekepickleman/spud-x-do-you-spud-bro)  --  **by @zekepickleman with a current reward of 17 SBD**
    
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>Just over 2 days and counting til SPUD X! Dont know what that is? Well read on! Source SPUD is an acronym for STEEM Power Up Day as coined originally by streetstyle back in the day! What it means officially is that all the active and dedicated community members earn, buy and steal as much liquid STEEM as we can, and power it up. Experience oldtimers like myself have done this every month for since the concepts launch early in 2019. New folks may not know about this but it is an exc...

**#3** [Food Of The World  Weekly RoundUp 101](https://steemit.com/@travelfeed/food-of-the-world-weekly-round-up-101)  --  **by @travelfeed with a current reward of 16 SBD**
    
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>a Food Of The World Weekly RoundUp 101 on TravelFeed.io for the best experiencehr Welcome to todays weekly Travelfeed Food Of The World roundup!Youve been warned, dont read our roundup on different foods from around the world when youre hungry. We dont take any responsibility for bites taking out of electronic devices. Do you have some food articles to share with us from your journeys? Go to a and dont forget to use foodoftheworld to draw our attention to them.The BEST posts for Food Of...

**#4** [Whats your super power gonna be in the upcoming tvirus landfill of biometric vanity and promise?](https://steemit.com/@teamhumble/idxj253o)  --  **by @teamhumble with a current reward of 12 SBD**
    
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>a Good morning. Well, its a good morning now, terrible night, really bad, not sure why or even what happened but its one of those nights when you evaluate everything and realise how many things you are so behind on i guess i should have seen the signs, it was meerkat wednesday and Ive had a few signs of clarity this January. So apart from needing an electric car, iPad Pro and a boat and the realisation of the upkeep of said items i started to look around at what i can change, whats lo...

**#5** [9 of 9 Therapy Time  Im on my way 2020 SteeMovie Odyssey TIBFOXEDITINGCHALLENGE Go2DTubeForum](https://steemit.com/@lorenzopistolesi/jjo27kupg7p)  --  **by @lorenzopistolesi with a current reward of 12 SBD**
    
>a Ive never met tibfox in real life, but I started to collaborate with him with a great pleasure. Blockchain collaboration. Take a look to his great contest lets start. I download tibfox video footage and I started editing proof my creativity on a short movie of 9 chapters Here we are on the last chapter of the TIB 2020 blockchain odyssey. This is our last chapter, maybe the most important concerning Steem Odyssey, it is for you Steem pioneers, because TIB made all this for yo, for give...

**#6** [Inner Blocks Community Radio Show Episode 30 RECORDING](https://steemit.com/@innerblocks/xxtxux8qgks)  --  **by @innerblocks with a current reward of 11 SBD**
    
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>a Like always, Stacie D and the Yeti chatted about all things Inner Blocks. Giving updates on the various things going on both on the Blockchain and also behind the curtain. There was talk about the amazing curation that is going on, and also the increase in Steem Power that is now over 17,000! We also discussed the updates about the frontend that should be here at the end of March and fully going by April! It is an exciting time! There were a lot of really great questions asked ...

**#7** [ Cryptocurrency Market Overview  30.01.2020](https://steemit.com/@cryptospa/3b07u33ivax)  --  **by @cryptospa with a current reward of 10 SBD**
    
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>a Hello dear Steemians and Dtubers! At the beginning of this video, I talked about the newly launched platform Reviewhunt by steemhunt. In addition, I outlined some of the quests available, including the one of tibfox Subscribe to TIBFOX on YouTube! After that I commented on a recent interview on BLOCKTV with Craig Wright, in which he was asked about the private keys to the bitcoins of the Tulip Trust. At the end I mentioned a recent tweet by John McAfee, in which he criticized Bitc...

**#8** [Its Thursday 30th January 2020! Happy AlmostFriday! Drop a link to an undervalued post for the chance of a resteem, upvote and tweet](https://steemit.com/@felt.buzz/2fe5q5qeiug)  --  **by @felt.buzz with a current reward of 10 SBD**
    
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>a I was up at 7. Lit the fire, did some steeming Curating, and my freewrite. Watched some politics stuff and a documentry whilst doing some felting and playing the guitar. Just got back from walking the dogs Today, we are off to Aubusson a town 10k from here to take my wife to an appointment and to do some shopping. Later, as usual, I will be felting, practicing Spanish, French, German and my guitar later. Here is a video of somethings I handmade needlefelting yesterday using vege...

**#9** [ A 1963 SILVER FRANKLIN HALF DOLLAR... WHEN MONEY HAD REAL VALUE!](https://steemit.com/@stackin/appics-v1-appics-im-87037)  --  **by @stackin with a current reward of 10 SBD**
    
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> Most fiat currency these days literally have no value at all. Things use to be different when the Dollar was backed by gold in the 70s and coins Dimes, Quarters, Half Dollars were made with real silver and copper. How times have changed... for the worse. This 1963 Silver Franklin Half Dollar is made with 90 Silver and 10 Copper and currently has a value of around 6 as of right now. My predication that this little coin will have a value of over 30 this decade. Think Im crazy? Maybe ...

**#10** [How A 15 Yr Old Girl In Florida Received Emelia Earharts Last, Chilling Radio Transmissions](https://steemit.com/@janton/how-a-15-yr-old-girl-in-florida-received-emelia-earhart-s-last-chilling-radio-transmissions)  --  **by @janton with a current reward of 9 SBD**
    
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>Howdy folks and greetings from the Great Plains of North Texas! In yesterdays post we talked about what caused Emelias plane to be so far off course. Researchers believe it was part error on her navigators calculations but also cloudy weather which prevented him from using the stars to correct their path and lastly, the radio signals were not getting to the ship which was waiting for her on Howland Island and theirs were not getting to her. They ended up being 100 miles off course and clo...



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-2020-01-30) 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-2020-04).


## Your Customized Top List

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