## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **9984 SBD and 3940 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-2018-08-01), 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** [Episode 9 of The Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show Wednesday at 6PM UTC](https://steemit.com/@jedigeiss/episode-9-of-the-utopian-io-open-source-radio-show-wednesday-at-6pm-utc) -- **by @jedigeiss with a current reward of 267 SBD**
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>Utopian.io and MSP Waves are proud to present the Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show, coming to you live every Wednesday at 6PM UTC on MSP Waves. Interested in Open Source on the Steem blockchain and beyond? Looking to hear some inspiring stories and discussions about the Open Source ecosystem? Tune in to the Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show! This is the third and last show directly broadcasted out of my summer backup location. From next week onwards I am back home, with all my normal equ...
**#2** [Curie Author Showcase August 1st, 2018](https://steemit.com/@curie/curie-author-showcase-august-1st-2018) -- **by @curie with a current reward of 129 SBD**
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> In the spirit of Curies mission to promote undiscovered but exceptional content, we wish to use this twice weekly section to provide an author showcase for some of the outstanding authors who received Curie upvotes in past week. Curie curators and reviewers nominate authors for inclusion in this showcase and author approval is sought and attained. For those new to Curie, please follow curie, and join us on Discord Follow curies votes to support the authors. Please consider following o...
**#3** [A Few Basic Questions Screamed In And At The Overwhelmed Mind](https://steemit.com/@douglasbalmain/a-few-basic-questions-screamed-in-and-at-the-overwhelmed-mind) -- **by @douglasbalmain with a current reward of 123 SBD**
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> Overwhelmed. Thats the word. Thats the world. The world is overwhelmed and so too must be any mind that thinks and feels within itoverwhelmed and driven to inaction and bewilderment. Whats one to do with the information available to them? What choices is one to make? What is one supposed to feel?how is one to feel? Where does one go from here?and, more importantly, why? Why? Unanswered and answerless questions. Dissociation. Overloading. These are impulses; responses to the state...
**#4** [SteemSTEM Utopian.io Meetup in Italy a window on Florence Nightingale, aka the Lady with the Lamp](https://steemit.com/@steemstem/steemstem-and-utopian-io-meetup-in-italy-a-window-on-florence-nightingale-aka-the-lady-with-the-lamp) -- **by @steemstem with a current reward of 112 SBD**
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> As most of you already know, our second steemSTEM Meetup is approaching, during which participants will have a chance to visit the Virgo lab located near Pisa in Italy, as well as to spend some quality time socializing with each other in the beautiful city of Florence. We decided to make a series of posts about prominent people who originated from this city, so that participants will be able to truly appreciate historical significance of Florence. Florence Nightingale was born in 18...
**#5** [Southern Belle Sweet Tea](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/southern-belle-sweet-tea) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 75 SBD**
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>One thing I bought with me from spending time in the South is that you cannot underestimate the relaxing, cooling effect of a cold glass of sweet tea on hot day. Nothing quite says summertime like the simple pleasure of sitting outside and sipping on a glass of sweet tea. As August draws near, I know the hot dog days of summer are on their way, but Ill be prepared with this refreshing recipe for sweet tea. You too can channel your inner southern belle and have a pitcher of this sweet tea pre...
**#6** [Why Is My Vehicle Overheating?](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/why-is-my-vehicle-overheating) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 75 SBD**
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>If you are driving and notice that your coolant temperature gauge is getting into the red, you might be tempted to shut your vehicle off. However, you should only do this if you are noticeably leaking coolant. Otherwise, you should just pull over and let let the car idle. Shutting off the car will shut off the cooling system as well, causing the engine to boil over. This is known as heat soak, and you want to avoid this if possible. While idling, turn on the heat to full blast this should h...
**#7** [Why Is My Vehicle Overheating? Part 2](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/why-is-my-vehicle-overheating-part-2) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 74 SBD**
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>See part 1 a here. In part 1 we talked about finding leaks and airflow problems. But what if that didnt solve the problem? If your fan is working and you cant find any leaks, but revving the engine while idling does reduce the temperature, there are a couple of other possibilities. One is your water pump. There are plenty of things that can go wrong here, but you can usually tell if it is making noise, meaning there is a problem with the impeller. Check the belt as well. It shouldnt be ...
**#8** [Mud film the movie is O.K. and if you have daddy issues youll love it](https://steemit.com/@gooddream/5oust3-mud-film-the-movie-is-o-k-and-if-you-have-daddy-issues-you-ll-love-it) -- **by @gooddream with a current reward of 73 SBD**
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>THIS WAS AN ACCIDENTAL DOUBLEPOST. I CANT DELETE IT OR DONT KNOW HOW. IM LOOKING, BUT IN THE MEANTIME DONT VOTE FOR THIS ONE The acting is good in this movie dont get me wrong. However, if there was ever a more obvious plot line to take advantage of people who were missing father figures in their life, I cant think of one greater than this. The Plot without totally ruining the story which I am sure you could guess anyway Some kids who are reasonably well behaved stumble upon fu...
**#9** [Listing A Couple Cards On The Monster Market!!!! Plus Live GiveAway!!!!!](https://steemit.com/@mrviquez/347e55c8-9524-11e8-80d4-0242ac110003) -- **by @mrviquez with a current reward of 40 SBD**
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> Just because I havent been posting about SteemMonsters doesnt mean I forgot!!!!! I still hold a bunch of cards. Today Im gonna list some cards in the market to see if I can actually sell some. According to the Steem Monster Team the game is still on track to start in September. Thats one month away!!!! Anyhow catch my live stream for more info!!!!! My live stream is at DLive a To vote, use the link above, and go to the qbottom of the page, and enter blockbuster into the box and c...
**#10** [The Time I Got Stopped At Gunpoint On the YugoslaviaRomania Border](https://steemit.com/@revo/the-time-i-got-stopped-at-gunpoint-on-the-yugoslavia-romania-border) -- **by @revo with a current reward of 37 SBD**
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>OK, it wasnt exactly at gun point, unless you define point as a region somewhere on the ground a number of metres in front of me. But as a naive young tourist on his first trip abroad, it didnt make all that much difference. Facing the three armed soldiers, guns at hand, had me wondering what the hell I was doing there. Boarding the train at Timioara, Romania, at 4.30 am that morning, the signs were already there that this would be no ordinary trip. My travel companion for that day was a ...
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## Your Customized Top List
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