## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **5202 SBD and 10017 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-2018-10-15), 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** [Curie Author Showcase October 14th, 2018](https://steemit.com/@curie/curie-author-showcase-october-14th-2018) -- **by @curie with a current reward of 82 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...
**#2** [Why Do People Drink Their Own Urine?](https://steemit.com/@conficker/why-do-people-drink-their-own-urine) -- **by @conficker with a current reward of 75 SBD**
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> a Trust me, the act of drinking urine of any sources is not new. It has been practised for a few decades maybe longer than that by various kind of population, notably, among mixed martial arts MMA fighters, one of which has been documented in 2009 by the HBO. Despite all of the physical and physiological benefits of drinking urine, I think most of us agree that it takes courage to try such therapy and with the advent of a much more effective medication, urine has been discarded as the ...
**#3** [STEMng Digest Week 38](https://steemit.com/@stemng/stemng-digest-week-38) -- **by @stemng with a current reward of 70 SBD**
>This digest is the 38th episode of the stemng digest series where we bring to you some of the best posts under the stemng tag in the past week. classpullleft For those that do not know yet, stemng is a subcommunity of steemSTEM, a communitydriven project which seeks to promote wellwritten and informative Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics posts by Nigerians on Steemit. The project involves submitting quality STEMrelated posts to the steemSTEM management for upvoting and...
**#4** [My Steem Origins Story Challenge by Sndbox](https://steemit.com/@coruscate/8ht396g4) -- **by @coruscate with a current reward of 67 SBD**
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>a Hi Friends, Come join me for the sunrise on the deck and hear a bit more about my early steem days. I just stumbled upon sndboxs Steem Origin challenge and thought Id take a moment to join in and share more of my steem origin story. For those who are interested in checking this challenge out you can find the original post here. The week is almost up though so keep that in mind. They do a new question every week to help increase engagement and spark good discussion. I definitely th...
**#5** [Hearty Vegetarian Tortilla Soup](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/hearty-vegetarian-tortilla-soup) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 58 SBD**
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>Theres nothing to warm your belly on a cold night like a nice steamy bowl of soup. One of my favorite soups is this vegetarian tortilla soup. To me, the beans, tomatoes, and corn with the spicy heat of red chile powder tastes like the American Southwest. Traditionally, this dish is served with baked corn tortilla strips. However, feel free to crumble up crackers on top. And I always suggest a sprinkle of sharp cheddar on top, while some prefer sour cream or a squirt of lime juice. Ingred...
**#6** [True Lies film One of my favorite Arnie films](https://steemit.com/@gooddream/true-lies-film-one-of-my-favorite-arnie-films) -- **by @gooddream with a current reward of 58 SBD**
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>In the past few days I have focused on a couple of Arnold Schwarzenegger films, so I figured I may as well talk about what I consider to be one of his most entertaining. Arnold plays the role of Harry Tasker, a relatively boring computer salesman with a lot of secrets that he must keep from everyone he knows, including and especially his family, who are completely unaware of his double life. He has the usual suburban house with a manicured garden, a family dog, and of course a trou...
**#7** [The Village film meh](https://steemit.com/@gooddream/the-village-film-meh) -- **by @gooddream with a current reward of 58 SBD**
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>M. Night Shyamalan was already starting to lose his good graces with me when this movie came out. If you follow my stuff I recently reviewed a film of his that I really enjoyed, the first in a while. The Village was not one of the ones I enjoyed. The story is set in Covington Pennsylvania in the 19th century where a group of villagers live a simple life but they cannot leave the small village that they live in out of fear of gruesome creatures that live just outside of it. These cre...
**#8** [Albuquerques Old Town](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/albuquerque-s-old-town) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 57 SBD**
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>Albuquerque was founded in 1706 by the governor of New Mexico, Francisco Cuervo y Valds. Although he claimed the town was a properly laid out settlement, investigation by the Mexican government found it was only a few farms along the Rio Grande. Nevertheless, a legitimate town did grow up in the spot, with the typical Spanish colonial central plaza where citizens would gather for business and fellowship. The central plaza was surrounded by offices, homes and the beautiful San Felipe de Neri...
**#9** [Soft Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/soft-chocolate-chip-pumpkin-cookies) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 57 SBD**
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>Celebrate autumn and pumpkin season with these fantastic pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! These are the perfect cookie they are soft, full of flavor, easy to make, and by using mini chocolate chips you can bet there is a yummy burst of chocolate in each bite. Ingredients 1 cup canned pumpkin 2 cups mini chocolate chips 1 cup of sugar cup canola oil 1 egg room temperature 2 cups of flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon whole milk 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 2 teaspoon baking...
**#10** [Apache](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/apache) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 57 SBD**
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>Ive recently been listening to Dan Carlins awesome podcast about the Mongols called The Wrath of the Khans. It is very interesting how similar the Mongolian nomadic lifestyle was to that of the Apache people of North America at the time of the Spanish arrival in New Mexico. The Apache are part of the Athabaskan language family, which includes tribes from the Northwest Pacific Coast all the way up through Canada into Alaska. It is estimated that the Apaches ancestors left these areas and reac...
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## Your Customized Top List
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