## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **3391 SBD and 13627 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-2019-03-12), 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** [The Life of Mustafa Kemal Atatrk 17](https://steemit.com/@oendertuerk/the-life-of-mustafa-kemal-atatuerk-17) -- **by @oendertuerk with a current reward of 102 SBD**
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> source classpullleft Part 16 classpullright Part 18 The Greek army marched again on 13 August 1921 towards the Turkish positions in Sakarya. On August 15, 1921, the Greek king Constantine gave his armies the order to Ankara! The Greeks, who marched without halt, occupied some Turkish cities and provinces and finally reached Sakarya. On August 23, 1921, the battle at Sakarya Square began with the attack of the Greek army. The Greek attack was stopped by the Turkish troops ...
**#2** [Saying CHEERS to all the builders and buyers of STEEM](https://steemit.com/@soyrosa/saying-cheers-to-all-the-builders-and-buyers-of-steem) -- **by @soyrosa with a current reward of 50 SBD**
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>Just a rambling post, to say thank you to everyone who has been building and buying STEEM these past few months. Today I hopped into the SteemChat Discord server go there if you havent already and was greeted by whatsup who welcomed me by saying I must feel pretty good about my buying actions the past few months. She told me she was happy for me, glenalbrethsen we powered up to Dolphin status about the same time!, and all the other people who powered up during the scariest of times. Hones...
**#3** [Game Tree Cafe Chiang Mai Board games galore, what an epic idea for a store!](https://steemit.com/@gooddream/game-tree-cafe-chiang-mai-board-games-galore-what-an-epic-idea-for-a-store) -- **by @gooddream with a current reward of 33 SBD**
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>One of the things I really enjoy about this city is the amount of groups that exist for the community other than just going to a bar and getting smashed. When I lived in Krabi that was the only real group that we had and is a big part of the reason why I ended up weighing nearly 110Kg at one point. Game Tree Cafe is a shop that is filled with a legion of board games, most of them directed towards scifi and fantasy nerds like me. This is perfect. If you do not know how to play the game ...
**#4** [Motorcycle Travel Series by velimir Lego Worlds Train Tracks Part 626](https://steemit.com/@velimir/motorcycle-travel-series-by-velimir-lego-worlds-train-tracks-part-626) -- **by @velimir with a current reward of 32 SBD**
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>a titlesource ur.com a titlesource ur.com a titlesource ur.com a titlesource ur.com Enjoy! 2019 Velimir Kovai All rights reserved. All images and text published in this post are my original work. I encourage everyone to use own texts, thoughts and images as much as possible. Be yourself and stay yourself. This is a proper way to build steemit.com steem platform. I do not have respect for dishonest authors. Also, bloggers actually DO matter! For good, inspirational re...
**#5** [Old Barrel Tea Company Albuquerque, NM](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/old-barrel-tea-company-albuquerque-nm) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 32 SBD**
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>If you love a good cup of tea, this place is a must see. Old Barrel Tea Company located in quaint Old Town Albuquerque specializes in high quality loose leaf tea. Their teas go from the expected to the original. A few interesting options include a banana coffee rooibos, a lavender infused earl grey, and a coconut creme pu erh tea. And they feature an apothecary of medicinal teas to ease maladies like menopause, sore throats, tummy troubles, and insomnia. While you are browsing, they ...
**#6** [Original Art Photography Series by velimir 589 Dark Blue](https://steemit.com/@velimir/original-art-photography-series-by-velimir-589-dark-blue) -- **by @velimir with a current reward of 32 SBD**
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> a titlesource ur.com Another one for my blue collection. This time I tried to reach a certain level of fear involved with the darkness. Enjoy! 2019 Velimir Kovai All rights reserved. All images and text published in this post are my original work. I encourage everyone to use own texts, thoughts and images as much as possible. Be yourself and stay yourself. This is a proper way to build steemit.com steem platform. I do not have respect for dishonest authors. Also, bloggers actua...
**#7** [The Tucker Carlson Scandal the continuing absurdity of mainstream media in USA](https://steemit.com/@gooddream/the-tucker-carlson-scandal-the-continuing-absurdity-of-mainstream-media-in-usa) -- **by @gooddream with a current reward of 32 SBD**
>Lets get this straight right out the door I am not a Fox News guy, or a fan of any of the mainstreammedia outlets. Just when we start to think that the news networks in the USA have decided to stop back a bit from being completely ridiculous such as when they are accusing a teenager of attacking a Native American and saying racist things to African Americans only to have the story completely debunked and revealed as being nearly the opposite of what the MSM said and then they never talk a...
**#8** [Marketing Steem My Personal Marketing Plan to grow Steem](https://steemit.com/@pennsif/marketing-steem-my-personal-marketing-plan-to-grow-steem) -- **by @pennsif with a current reward of 31 SBD**
> classpullright In my previous post about marketing Steem I highlighted four possible marketing targets... Alas I dont have the resources to pick up on all four of these. But on two of these I want to push forward. As much as I can. classpullright This is where I started on Steem. And this is where I want to go on Steem. I strongly believe Steem is a perfect fit for many in what the outside world will term the alternative lifestyle sectors the homesteaders, the preppers, the home...
**#9** [Missions and Murder in Old Taos](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/missions-and-murder-in-old-taos) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 31 SBD**
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>Franciscan priests founded the original mission in Taos in 1617, but the Taos Pueblo was always the most hostile to the Spanish colonials of all the Pueblo tribes. Practically every attempt to overthrow the Spanish was instigated or supported from here, and not surprisingly this first church was destroyed in 1926 and the priest was murdered. This happened several times before the Pueblo Revolt drove the Spanish from the region for 12 years in 1680. The Battle of Taos in 1847. When Dieg...
**#10** [The Demon Cat of Capitol Hill North American Folklore](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/the-demon-cat-of-capitol-hill-north-american-folklore) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 30 SBD**
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>Its a little funny to imagine staunchly professional politicians perpetuating the tale of the socalled Demon Cat that haunts the halls of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C. altPanther, Cat, Black, Animal There are several variations on the Demon Cat legend, but many agree that the stories began as soon as the building was completed in 1800. One of the first reports of an attack by the beastly cat was from an early night watchman of the Capitol Building. As he was doing his...
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