## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **4649 SBD and 8584 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-2018-10-17), 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** [Welcoming Rocket.Chat to the VIPO Club](https://steemit.com/@utopian-io/welcoming-rocket-chat-to-the-vipo-club) -- **by @utopian-io with a current reward of 148 SBD**
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>We are proud and delighted to introduce a new member to our Very Important Project Owners VIPO club Rocket.Chat. While they are known on Steem as the engine behind Steem.chat, Rocket.Chat is a fastgrowing communication and collaboration platform that is now installed on over 180k servers and counts over 10m users worldwide as well as having an active, passionate community of over 700 developercontributors who help Rocket.Chats core team of developers to constantly improve the product. Rock...
**#2** [Go Vote For STEEM on Netcoins It Takes 30 Seconds Lets Get STEEM Listed!](https://steemit.com/@v4vapid/go-vote-for-steem-on-netcoins-it-takes-30-seconds-let-s-get-steem-listed) -- **by @v4vapid with a current reward of 86 SBD**
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> You might be thinking that this is not a typical V4V post and youre right about that, its not. I received a message from creatr asking for some help to get the word out about a contest being held on Netcoins.com, RIGHT NOW. Ranking at time of voting Verge 3038 1 Click the Link Above 2 Scroll Down until you see VOTE for STEEM 3 Enter your email address and click on the VOTE button 4 Click on Confirm Your Email 5 Go to Your email inbox and Confirm Check the about page of Netcoins...
**#3** [My First Dtube Snap! Lets Chat Whats A Win From the Week?](https://steemit.com/@coruscate/t173ke1m) -- **by @coruscate with a current reward of 73 SBD**
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>a Hi Friends! Ive decided to give this whole Dtube snap thing a try! For those who dont know, it is an initiative by nathanmars to encourage more people to start using Dtube. The point is to make a 1 minute or less video, just like you would see on Snapchat or Instagram. For many people, making a big vlog or produced video can feel intimidating. I think this is actually a pretty fun initiative to get people more comfortable getting in front of the camera and sharing more of themselves wi...
**#4** [One of The gGreat Buddhist Building in Korea. KeuglakJeon Hall of Muryangsa temple](https://steemit.com/@slowwalker/one-of-the-ggreat-buddhist-building-in-korea-keuglak-jeon-hall-of-muryang-sa-temple) -- **by @slowwalker with a current reward of 64 SBD**
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> Keuglakjeon is the hall for serving Maitreya, the future Buddha. Here, Id like to explain that keuglak means the paradise in literally. It seems when Maitreya Buddha comes to this world, whole world becomes the paradise by the salvation of Maitreya Buddha. It was not long ago the I heard about the 3 great Buddhist hall in Korea. Thats the reason to visit Muryangsa temple where was not easy to get there. This temple was located in the difficult location to get there from my place. I c...
**#5** [Blue Roses](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/blue-roses) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 54 SBD**
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>iframe width100 height300 scrollingno frameborderno allowautoplay About a synthetic blue rose bush smothered in the repugnant styrofoam clutches of humanitys seething avarice. Lyrics In this world of shadows and poses Everything breaks, and nothing decomposes These styrofoam prisons are choking out my blue roses Everything crashes and everything loads Everythings plastic and anything goes Are your children starving? Well good, thats what I need A population so exploitable, theyll...
**#6** [The Cavalry Battle At Sea](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/the-cavalry-battle-at-sea) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 52 SBD**
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>In the aftermath of Frances Revolution, the French Revolutionary Wars that followed from 1792 until 1802 pitted the new republic against Austria, Great Britain, and several other monarchies, including Holland. The aftermath left the French with a number of new territories across Europe and across the Atlantic, including the Louisiana Territory. In one bizzare episode from the early days of these wars, a French cavalry regiment managed to capture a Dutch fleet of 14 ships on horseback! On t...
**#7** [PixelJunk Eden](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/pixeljunk-eden) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 52 SBD**
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>PixelJunk Eden was QGames third PixelJunk game, coming out in 2008 for the PlayStation 3. The hypnotic electro soundtrack and trippy artwork were the work of Japanese artist Baiyon. In Eden, you control a Grimp who jumps from plant stalks and fronds to abstract shapes with the help of a thread of silk that can be deployed and spun around on for momentum. The aim is to burst open pods and collect the pollen that come out, forming new plants. By doing this you can ascend higher and higher...
**#8** [Wachains Progress and Potential](https://steemit.com/@alvinauh/cwmweuv-wanchain-s-journey-thus-far-and-their-competitors) -- **by @alvinauh with a current reward of 48 SBD**
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>In the previous two articles, I wrote about about what Wanchain is all about. In this post, Ill be talking about Wanchains achievements thus far. I believe that if you have invested in cryptocurrencies, you will know that the updates from that particular cryptocurrency gives you assurance. Those updates are a form of accountability to you, the investor and informing you of how on track the project is. Wanchain for example, has been posting updates of their project on their twitter account. T...
**#9** [Distributed Blockchains More Important Than The Internet](https://steemit.com/@grampo/distributed-blockchains-more-important-than-the-internet) -- **by @grampo with a current reward of 48 SBD**
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>Distributed blockchains are a frustrating beast to understand, especially for tech professionals with experience of building largescale centralized data systems. I was once in the same boat. Honestly, if someone were to ask me to build the slowest, most expensive and just plain inefficient database, a distributed blockchain would seem to be the top contender. Every node has a copy of the entire database. Every node reprocesses all records to verify consensus from day one. Data synchronizat...
**#10** [STEEM News Reviews and Gossip 6 Netcoins Contest and Thanks to nathanmars](https://steemit.com/@paulag/o4y32tor) -- **by @paulag with a current reward of 47 SBD**
>a Vote for STEEM to be listed on Netcoins. You can use this link to place your vote You can vote once a day for the next 4 days. Do also check out oracled as they have contests for those that are voting. As I am taking part in one of these contests I must shout out to some fellow steemians to also vote and do a post about it. So meno, einstei1, aneukpineung78, VladiVostok and paintingangels make sure you place your votes. STEEM is counting on you. Why is this important. Netcoins h...
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## Your Customized Top List
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