## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **12 SBD and 493 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-2019-10-19), 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** [Ranty thoughts](https://steemit.com/@acidyo/ranty-thoughts) -- **by @acidyo with a current reward of 24 SBD**
>I dont know about you guys, but its getting kind of annoying to try and explain downvotes to each and every person who feels they are used unfairly. One thing Ive attempted to do on Steem ever since the day I joined was to focus on my account and persona I have here. I didnt care to start building my account on Youtube, Twitter, Facebook or any other decentralized alternatives at the time, the latter mostly cause they were all a joke and died off faster than some steemengine tokens have. I c...
**#2** [MarketFriday by dswigle Strawberry festival!!](https://steemit.com/@rynow/marketfriday-by-dswigle-strawberry-festival) -- **by @rynow with a current reward of 12 SBD**
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> MarketFriday by dswigle Strawberry festival!! As you might know by now my wife and I was visiting Wilderness, in the Western Cape Province of South Africa at the end op September. Although we were only there for I week, we visited 3 markets. This particular market is in the neighboring town of George and is named the Strawberry Festival!! It was a very overcast and rainy day, thus the attendance was not good, but I must also say we were there early and later on more people arrived!! They ...
**#3** [Grow Sweet Potatoes in Wisconsin Harvest Results!](https://steemit.com/@brewcitygardener/27c1rbngl2r) -- **by @brewcitygardener with a current reward of 8 SBD**
>a Can you grow sweet potatoes in Wisconsin? Just as the title says; I figured out if I can grow a successful crop of sweet potatoes in Milwaukee WI zone 5b. This is the first time I have ever tried to grow sweet potatoes! Check out the harvest and results to find out if it really is possible. Thanks for watching! Check out our Facebook Page! Join our Facebook group The Global Straw Bale Gardeners Collective Sign up for Rakuten Ebates here and earn cash back on your online purchase...
**#4** [Flowers that do not die easily.](https://steemit.com/@filiusdei/flowers-that-do-not-die-easily) -- **by @filiusdei with a current reward of 8 SBD**
>Hello dear Steemiteros, how are you? They tell me? Excuse me for how late I publish my daily post ... Today I had a family medical complication ... But thats already a topic for another post. Today I would like to make a little reflection about what we do as people, recently I discovered a small pleasure in watering not only the plants, but also taking care of the flowers that my family and I have in a garden, it is very gratifying to see grow something that you are taking care of with m...
**#5** [Why Am I Selling Alpha Cards?](https://steemit.com/@chrisroberts/why-am-i-selling-alpha-cards) -- **by @chrisroberts with a current reward of 7 SBD**
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>I hate to see them go, with all their pristine but basic Alpha glory. ...but I cant kid myself. I knew this time would come. There were so few of them to begin with. As more players hit em with the burn bat, theyre only gonna become more scarce, and for me, that means less maxable. You know what gets in the way of making the most of this game? Sentimentality. I get it. These cards remind us of the coveted trading cards that we were scared to get our finger oils on when we were younger. We t...
**#6** [Bozzlife A Fluff Friday Post](https://steemit.com/@bozz/bozzlife-a-fluff-friday-post) -- **by @bozz with a current reward of 7 SBD**
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> Some of you may consider this a crap post or a fluff piece to get some free upvotes on a Friday. Thats cool, we all are entitled to our opinion. The fact is, mrsbozz and I are celebrating our 11th anniversary this weekend and I thought it would only be right to dedicate a post to the woman who allows me to do what I do. As a school social worker, she has pretty much the biggest heart I have ever seen. Social workers these days get a bad rap. Especially by a particular group on Stee...
**#7** [Jewish Pupil Is Forced to Kiss the Shoe of a Muslim Boy ](https://steemit.com/@atheistrepublic/iamfravt) -- **by @atheistrepublic with a current reward of 5 SBD**
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> Watch on 3Speak A Jewish schoolboy was forced to kiss the shoe of a Muslim boy or face a vicious beating at the hands of nine other children who circled him in a park. A photograph shows a 12yearold on his knees kissing the shoe of a Muslim boy, allegedly after a group 12 and 13yearolds threatened him with violence. It is unclear whether the Muslim boy was forced to pose for the photo by the gang, who have so far escaped disciplinary action, The Age reported. In another instance of...
**#8** [Gods Unchained on Steemit Win STEEM!](https://steemit.com/@arsenal49/gods-unchained-on-steemit-win-steem) -- **by @arsenal49 with a current reward of 4 SBD**
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> Thanks to the ocd team it is now possible to earn a few steem simply by playing Gods Unchained. This tournament will be the first of many created by the OCD team. Because its no longer possible to earn Genesis Raffles by playing matches, they have decided that they will reward you in STEEM, and some raffles tokens. Raffle tokens can be used in the draw, where it will be possible to draw the last of four mythic cards. The first one sold at 62.000 dollars. Anyway, lets get to it. So if you...
**#9** [Another pile of hardwood chips delivered, free of charge](https://steemit.com/@solominer/another-pile-of-hardwood-chips-delivered-free-of-charge-idmqlnvi) -- **by @solominer with a current reward of 4 SBD**
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>This must be the forth or fifth truck load of mulch delivered to me this year. Across the street some Oak trees were being cut down. So I went over to the tree crew and asked them if they had any mulch. As soon as I asked he knew what I was wanting. And I pointed across the street and asked him to back up into the drive way and dump all of their hardwood chips from the day. I prefer hardwood mulch such as the Oak tree they cut down. The wood lasts longer making it release its nu...
**#10** [This Afternoon, I Lost a Good Friend, Brother Elder as He Passed into the Great Spirit World... This is How I Honor Him Tonight...](https://steemit.com/@jeronimorubio/viscoqb068d) -- **by @jeronimorubio with a current reward of 4 SBD**
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>a !This Afternoon, I Lost a Good Friend, Brother Elder as He Passed into the Great Spirit World... I Honor Him Tonight.jpg This Afternoon, I Lost a Good Friend, Brother Elder as He Passed into the Great Spirit World... This is How I Honor Him Tonight... JustTagIt !To My Friend, My Brother, My Elder... Good Smoke on Your Final Spiritual Journey.png Check out All the New Tokens Tribes on Steem Engine dsound is One Place to Get Music for your Videos but, Ask Permission Firs...
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