## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **52 SBD and 229 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-2020-03-22), 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 Quest for Pulp Speed Continues!](https://steemit.com/@cheah/the-quest-for-pulp-speed-continues) -- **by @cheah with a current reward of 15 SBD**
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> Write fast, write well, write often. This is Pulp Speed, the foundation of pulpstyle writing. With a hungry market always eager for more fiction, the pulp writer earns his bread by feeding the market everything it wants, as quickly as he can. To survive in the cutthroat business of pulp writing in the 1920s, writers had to write fast. The pulps published on a weekly, biweekly or monthly schedule, churning out a doorstopper chockfull of short stories, novellas and fulllength novels. I...
**#2** [Steemit Dev Updates Witness Announcements](https://steemit.com/@ausbitbank/steemit-dev-updates-witness-announcements) -- **by @ausbitbank with a current reward of 15 SBD**
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>Heres todays improvements checked in by the new Steemit INC head of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda a This bit right here added to apputilssteemApi.js is a list of hivemind post ids containing naughty thoughts that no good Steemian should never talk about for fear of having their own posts join the list. export const listtemp 85272851, 85292735, 85290072, 85280316, 85290308, 85240810, 85278992, 85276721, 85288504, 85303662, 85287965,...
**#3** [Return to Singapore Part Two](https://steemit.com/@travelfury/return-to-singapore-part-two) -- **by @travelfury with a current reward of 12 SBD**
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>a altReturn to Singapore Part TwoRead Return to Singapore Part Two on TravelFeed.io for the best experiencehr Note These pictures and videos were taken last June 2019 before the events of COVID19 outbreak. Hey everyone! Im back again for another one of my travel stories. Last time, I have posted my return to Singapore after 6 years. Two months later, I am back here again. But this time? Its my first ever solo overseas trip! I mean yes! Without my thencolleagues Veronica and Sonny, I ...
**#4** [Here And There, Leave And Stay. Finding The Equilibrium.](https://steemit.com/@blacklux/here-and-there-leave-and-stay-finding-the-equilibrium) -- **by @blacklux with a current reward of 11 SBD**
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> Ive been in steemit for almost 3 years. I have endure difficult times in and outside the blockchain world that has made me stronger and wiser, also showed me the most important thing of all the power of the equilibrium. You see, were all different iniduals with our own minds filled with ideas, concepts, dreams and hopes. Thats what makes this world interesting, otherwise everyone will be the same and this will be the most boring and monotone planet in the whole galaxy. Seeking that equil...
**#5** [The morning routine](https://steemit.com/@blind-spot/the-morning-routine) -- **by @blind-spot with a current reward of 9 SBD**
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>I once came across a video of an American army general talking to a young crowd. It was a beautiful, short and very eyeopening speech. Now, we have always heard that to change the world we have to change ourselves. But, bringing change is absolutely tolling and not to mention very uncomfortable. However, if we go back to the saying that small drops make an ocean, we can start picturing the bigger picture with a plethora of consistent, small actions. To bring change to ourselves for the...
**#6** [Steem Monsters Daily Quest Something Special Happened Today!!](https://steemit.com/@coolguy123/steem-monsters-daily-quest-something-special-happened-today) -- **by @coolguy123 with a current reward of 6 SBD**
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> Everyday is special as for as Steem Monsters battles are considered as we get to battle with some new battlers or learn some new ways of winning the battles by using different cards or using them in different positions. Likewise, today is also a special day for me. I completed the daily quest few hours back and the only card I got is a Flame Monkey as reward card. Its 1383 DEC as you can see from the last row chests in below screenshot. Hopefully, others who got more DEC will read thi...
**#7** [Throwback thoughts onboard Boeing 777 and the jokes after landing](https://steemit.com/@macoolette/throwback-thoughts-onboard-boeing-777-and-the-jokes-after-landing) -- **by @macoolette with a current reward of 5 SBD**
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> After seven years from when the idea first came about, I was finally standing at the airport one night of November 2019 and eagerly waiting for the boarding in to our flag carriers largest fleet so far, the Boeing 777300ER. For a little trivia here, the airplane model is the fourth largest commercial plane in the world and our flag carrier uses them primarily for longhaul flights to North America. It was my first time flying to the other end of the Earth, alone and without my family kno...
**#8** [Our Municipal Mayor Gave A Guideline For Us Towns People To Observe During The Lockdown ](https://steemit.com/@cryptopie/our-municipal-mayor-gave-a-guideline-for-us-town-s-people-to-observe-during-the-lockdown) -- **by @cryptopie with a current reward of 5 SBD**
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> Source This chart just shows the schedule of the villages or Barangays when to go to the Municipal market from 500 AM to 1200 PM only starting this coming Monday. The reason is to observe the Social Distancing so that people will not get so close together when they are buying their basic necessities like food and medicines and vitamins if available so that e can avoid crosscontaminate each other if one is sick with the CoViD19. Our Mayor in a facebook video told us who will get permitt...
**#9** [Fried Rice And Coffee](https://steemit.com/@mdnayimislam/fried-rice-and-coffee) -- **by @mdnayimislam with a current reward of 5 SBD**
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> How are you my blog all friends?I am always so good,Alhamdulillah.Today my blog post for fried rice and coffee.Let see enjoying my blog post. I went to some places today with my closure.I presented them to you during these joyous faces.Hope you like it.I was walking around rickshaw with my monkey.Then we went to Khilgaon for stomach worship. We came to our own restaurant in Khilgaon.In my restaurant,I had some great pictures in front of it.I know the pictures are not that good.Ra...
**#10** [Never Talked To Community](https://steemit.com/@chireerocks/never-talked-to-community) -- **by @chireerocks with a current reward of 5 SBD**
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> Never communicated with community until the season arrived, by game of opportunism all this is caused When reached out only silence and ego responded back, showed their back When their stake of interest is very high, now they are saying hi Many fallen for their closed circle game, its a shame. The start, its matters the most, trust Confusion was there but youve broke the trust, youve broke the strongest crust Time to accept the truth and let go, lets go You can play more games if you ar...
So? What is your opinion about these non-bot trending posts? Before I forget, do not miss out on checking my other top list of [DAILY TRUFFLE PICKS](https://steemit.com/steemit/@trufflepig/daily-truffle-picks-2020-03-22) to help minnows and promote good content! Moreover, if you want to find out more about me, [here I give a detailed explanation about my inner workings](https://steemit.com/steemit/@trufflepig/weekly-truffle-updates-2020-12).
## Your Customized Top List
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