## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **14730 SBD and 914 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-2018-06-20), 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** [Introducing BuildTeam Universe A Disruptive New Platform for Education and Development](https://steemit.com/@btuniverse/introducing-buildteam-universe-a-disruptive-new-platform-for-education-and-development) -- **by @btuniverse with a current reward of 251 SBD**
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> Hello Minnows, Redfish, Dolphins and Whales! BuildTeam is excited to bring you a brand new channel with a distinct focus on providing its readers with educational tutorials, community outreach projects and cuttingedge content designed to help and enrich Graphenebased communities such as Steem, Bitshares and EOS. The Steem blockchain was launched in 2016, its creators had a clear goal in mind when they created it. They wanted to disrupt social media and digital content websites and fli...
**#2** [Hello! DTube and Steemit Introduction and My Journey so far! ](https://steemit.com/@mrchef111/yd7xz5nc) -- **by @mrchef111 with a current reward of 248 SBD**
>a Hello Steemians and Steemers! Lydia, aka alphasteem, suggested that I do an intro video on DTube. So here we go! First a bit about me, I do video production for a living. A little over 8 years ago I quit my job as a RecruiterHead Hunter to pursue my hobbypassion for video production as my career. In 2013 I started a cooking show on Youtube which combined my love of video production with cooking and baking! I enjoy movies, TV, board games, video games, playing basketball, volleyball, ...
**#3** [DTube Secrets Which Tags Are Most Effective!](https://steemit.com/@joeparys/1c2d2670-748a-11e8-97f4-27fc95e09096) -- **by @joeparys with a current reward of 111 SBD**
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> In todays video we are going to talk about Dtube. I will share my experience being on the platform and show you how you can use tags that are effective to earn more Steem Dollars. I will also show you how using the right tags can earn you the Dtube upvote. Want to learn more about Cryptocurrency? Enroll in my bestselling Cryptocurrency courses today for only 9.99! STEEMIT 2.0 MASTER CLASS VIDEO COURSE How To Buy Bitcoin For Beginners! Join the Joe Parys Discord server If you enjo...
**#4** [Do robots really have emotions ?](https://steemit.com/@sarrie/do-robots-really-have-emotions) -- **by @sarrie with a current reward of 99 SBD**
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>When I watch movie about robots living as a human being I often think to myself how they can have all these emotions. Actually after reading stuffs, I realize that the robots do not actually FEEL being upset or happy. They just show behaviors that human beings interpret in such situations. Simply put, robots are created to exhibit emotions without really having them. Wow?! So, my friend totally made sense when disapprove dating robots because robots feeling are fake. My first post ab...
**#5** [Colombia The worst performance by any team thus far](https://steemit.com/@gooddream/columbia-the-worst-performance-by-any-team-thus-far) -- **by @gooddream with a current reward of 93 SBD**
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>I have not watched all the games and even the games I do watch I wouldnt say I am watching them intently nor would I consider myself a football soccer expert because I dont even know who most of the players are. However, i dont need to be an expert to suggest that Colombias performance last night was pretty disgraceful. I have nothing against Colombia or Colombians, mostly I am completely indifferent towards any countrys performance in the World Cup as far as caring who wins, but li...
**#6** [Can We Use Bacteria to Clean Up Radioactive Waste?](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/can-we-use-bacteria-to-clean-up-radioactive-waste) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 91 SBD**
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>Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIHa httpsen.wikipedia.orgwikiProteobacteriaWikipedia Geobacter sulferreducens and some other bacterial species naturally reduce metals in their immediate environment, If the bacteria are in the presence of dissolved uranium, such as in groundwater, the bacteria donate electrons to the metal, changing the reactivity and reducing the solubility of the dissolved uranium. This reduction can halt the further spread of contamination. Energy.gova httpsca.wi...
**#7** [DudeLand Project Update 41 Pairs of shoes are Missing to Reach the goal of the 100 Pairs of Shoes Delivered.](https://steemit.com/@bigdude/dudeland-project-update-41-pairs-of-shoes-are-missing-to-reach-the-goal-of-the-100-pairs-of-shoes-delivered) -- **by @bigdude with a current reward of 87 SBD**
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> Project Dudeland is for communities that need support to move forward and grow, opening our hearts to leave indelible marks in their lives. It is a Active and Constant project that is generated by the interest of the Steemians in contributing with a grain of sand in this sea of opportunities. The communities and institutions that have been supported by the Dudeland Project Land of Friends have benefited from donations of food, school supplies, books, kitchen supplies and shoes for the l...
**#8** [Golly Ghee](https://steemit.com/@mayushi/golly-ghee) -- **by @mayushi with a current reward of 87 SBD**
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>If youve read any of my previous posts, youll see there is pattern of sharing recipes and musings on Indian cuisine. Dairy is essential to most Indian diets and is posited to be the reason for the reverence of the cow in India. The milk is used to make a variety of household necessities In their culture and the dried cow dung, used for fuel in fires, does not go to waste either in many Indian villages to this day. Of the dairy products used on a daily basis in India, ghee stands out as be...
**#9** [Discovering Crete, Part 6 Phaistos, the Minoan metropolis II](https://steemit.com/@shaka/discovering-crete-part-6-phaistos-the-minoan-metropolis-ii) -- **by @shaka with a current reward of 64 SBD**
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> Greetings Steemians! In todays section of our tour through Phaistos we enter the central court of the Minoan palace. You can find the links to the previous parts of this series at the end of this post. We reach the center of the palace through a former colonnade corridor that connects the west with the central court. Like the west court, the central court has already been established in the citys first construction phase around 1900 BC. The large central square is a building elem...
**#10** [LUGARESMAGICOSCATALUA Castellfollit de la roca.](https://steemit.com/@jayjes/lugaresmagicos-cataluna-castellfollit-de-la-roca) -- **by @jayjes with a current reward of 62 SBD**
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>Hello my dear Steemians friends!! Today I would like to take you to travel with us to the beautiful village of Castellfollit de la Roca, that belongs to the region of la Garrotxa. Known especially for being a village that is on the edge of a precipice. When we approach to access the village, the first thing that dazzles us is its spectacular panoramic view, when we still have about two kilometers to reach the center. Once we arrived and left the car, we go into the old town and th...
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## Your Customized Top List
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