## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **3232 SBD and 16079 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-2019-03-23), 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** [A Quadrilateral Face of Pagoda in Front of Dae Wung Jeon Hall in Wun Ju Sa temple](https://steemit.com/@slowwalker/a-quadrilateral-face-of-pagoda-in-front-of-dae-wung-jeon-hall-in-wun-ju-sa-temple) -- **by @slowwalker with a current reward of 59 SBD**
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>There were a bunch of pagodas at the end of the way to the temple. The appearances of the pagodas were very peculiar and characteristic. It was the first time for me to see those unique styles of pagodas. Ive never seen those kinds of pagodas before. The first pagoda I saw at the end of the road had a quadrilateral face. There was a buddha statue in the hall carved at each face. It reminded me of the pagoda made in Shilla dynasty which was made with the tiles in Gyeong Ju. See...
**#2** [AGFAcademy Curation Digest from 23rd March, 2019](https://steemit.com/@agfacademy/agfacademy-curation-digest-from-23rd-march-2019) -- **by @agfacademy with a current reward of 55 SBD**
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> Welcome To The Daily AGFAcademy Curation Digest Good afternoon everyone, this is Team Andre and were going to be showing you some of the best performing posts under the agafacademy tag on the 22nd March, 2019. CURATION DIGEST REPORT 22nd Mar, 2019 The Instep Pass Drill By Lady Giants Football Academyweek 3 Trainee lgfacademy Link The Instep Pass Drill By Young Stars Football Academy Trainee ysfacademy Link My Weekly Kicks. All through Instep. Author tezzmax...
**#3** [Create a forum application using django 7 Unique slug and Manage Modules in admin dashboard](https://steemit.com/@duski.harahap/create-a-forum-application-using-django-7-unique-slug-and-manage-modules-in-admin-dashboard-1553268749861) -- **by @duski.harahap with a current reward of 37 SBD**
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> Make unique slug Manage modules in admin dashboard Basic Python Install Python 3 Install Django Python Django Bootstrap 4 Basic This tutorial is a continuation of the previous tutorial, in the previous tutorial we made some features. Well, in this tutorial we will discuss a lot about admin features in the forum application. of course in this forum application, we will create an admin feature that will function to manage the content that is on our application. So later the con...
**#4** [Cleanplanet Project 21032019 on a ground. Vlog no 0026](https://steemit.com/@rdxhuda/c7rvld5s) -- **by @rdxhuda with a current reward of 29 SBD**
>a Hi guys, This dirty place is a ground.Im going to clear it. I am Rdx Huda. I live in Bangladesh. I live in any of the villages in Bangladesh. The cities of our country are very dirty. In addition to the city the village is not lagged behind dirty. But the villages are so beautiful. The people of the village are less educated because they can not understand the cleanliness.I shoot this video and show them. I told them about a clean planet project. Explained the horrors of plastic use. ...
**#5** [Spotted Salamander](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/spotted-salamander) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 28 SBD**
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> Common throughout the eastern US and Canada, the spotted salamander Ambystoma maculatum, is named for the bright spots lining its spine. Though they spend most of their time underground, but emerge on spring nights to mate near seasonal ponds of water called vernal pools. After a brief mating encounter, the salamanders return underground, leaving behind gelatinous masses of eggs enclosed in a thick membrane under the water. These egg sacs are the site of a unique symbiotic relationshi...
**#6** [Motorcycle Travel Series by velimir Torture device Part 637](https://steemit.com/@velimir/motorcycle-travel-series-by-velimir-torture-device-part-637) -- **by @velimir with a current reward of 28 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 r...
**#7** [Signal Fires of Ancient New Mexico](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/signal-fires-of-ancient-new-mexico) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 28 SBD**
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> Over 1,000 years ago, the ancestors of modern Pueblo tribes in New Mexico may have used bonfires to communicate over vast distances. Just like system of mountaintop warning fires in The Lord of the Rings between Gondor and Rohan, evidence of these signal fires has been uncovered at a variety of farflung ancestral sites, possibly used for alerting neighbors to approaching threats. Another speculation is that the fires were used to signal the timing of celestial events, like solstice and ...
**#8** [Vivo Bene Restaurant Chiang Mai A rather expensive but luxury dining experience](https://steemit.com/@gooddream/vivo-bene-restaurant-chiang-mai-a-rather-expensive-but-luxury-dining-experience) -- **by @gooddream with a current reward of 27 SBD**
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>When some pals of mine said they have a seat left at a fancypants establishment type place that requires shoes and a reservation, I immediately thought that this isnt my norm, but what the hell! Why not. Im glad I went but this is not how I roll normally. The first thing I noticed when eyeing up the options was the raw bar. While I dont generally indulge in these sorts of things it is normally because of the fact that they tend to be quite expensive. They had a ton of oysters with a...
**#9** [Sesame Terriyaki Tofu](https://steemit.com/@pinkspectre/sesame-terriyaki-tofu) -- **by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 26 SBD**
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>As far as marinades go, nothing really compares to the homemade version. This tofu is bursting with flavor, and manages to be sweet, tangy, sour and the perfect accompaniment to many dishes. I served this on a bowl of peanut sauced noodles and a handful of stir fried veggies, like carrots, sugar snap peas, onions, and bell peppers. Ingredients 1 block extra firm tofu, pressed and cubed 12 cup pineapple juice 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 teaspoon sesame seeds 12 teaspoon garlic salt 12 ...
**#10** [Paying respect to the King at cinemas in Thailand is compulsory](https://steemit.com/@gooddream/paying-respect-to-the-king-at-cinemas-in-thailand-in-compulsory) -- **by @gooddream with a current reward of 26 SBD**
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>To all Thai people this is just something that they have always grown up with. For me when I first went to a Bangkok theater nearly 20 years ago it was a bit of a surprise to me In the middle of the previews and advertisements that take place before every movie a homage to the King of Thailand comes on and a message in English appears next to the Thai script. I dont remember what the actual statement is but it is something along the lines of Please stand up and pay respect to His Majesty,...
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