## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **243 SBD and 2055 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-2020-08-03), 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** [1000 DAYS OF STEEM Day 22 The Diary Game Season 2 some early tips!](https://steemit.com/@steemitblog/1000-days-of-steem-day-22-the-diary-game-season-2-some-early-tips) -- **by @steemitblog with a current reward of 15 SBD**
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> classpullright Entries for Season 2 of The Diary Game are pouring in. Literally every few minutes. Thank you everyone for your enthusiasm for the Game. It looks like we will exceed the numbers for Season 1 in the first few days of Season 2 ! Thank you to everyone to everyone, especially the Country Representatives, who have been leaving helpful comments to encourage people to follow the Rules of The Diary Game. So far just over 90 of posts have been fully following the rules. ...
**#2** [swap.app is My GOTO ETH Swap for HIVESTEEM ETH](https://steemit.com/@tomoyan/swap-app-is-my-goto-eth-swap-for-hive-steem-eth) -- **by @tomoyan with a current reward of 10 SBD**
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>I posted about this swap.app before... And they made a website This site itself is not a token swap site. It is more like a tutorial site how to use swap.app type of thing. What I didnt know about is this I had to try them. First! Always check eth gas. it is just what i do, my habit... i dont want to do anything when gas is too high Gas price wasnt too bad so lets go!You can check the estimate on swap.app website. For 50 HIVE will get 0.02895 ETH is there a minimum amount? i am not...
**#3** [my dinner tonight](https://steemit.com/@korean.lesson/my-dinner-tonight) -- **by @korean.lesson with a current reward of 8 SBD**
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>recipe of koryosaram soup in Russia Ingredients Pork bone 2 medium potatoes Chinese cabbage Onion Soybean paste chai Salt Red pepper Rice Step 1 Boil the meat bone until tender. Step 2 On a Korean grater, shred raw potatoes, rinse them from starch in running water and add to the finished broth. Step 3 Since the potatoes cook very quickly, add the chopped Chinese cabbage immediately. Step 4 As soon as the cabbage with potatoes has reached readiness, add the fried onions, a tabl...
**#4** [The diary game 02082020](https://steemit.com/@sajibmolla17/the-diary-game-02-08-2020) -- **by @sajibmolla17 with a current reward of 7 SBD**
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> Hope everybody is well And you are enjoying the daily Diary game season 2 on Steemit in a very beautiful way. Today I woke up at 8 oclock. I woke up late today because I was very tired from the joy of Eid and a little too much work at the moment of cow sacrifice so I slept late last night and the reason for waking up late this morning. When I wake up, I go to the toilet first and brush. After brushing, I do not wipe my hands and face with a towel. Today I eat paise as breakfast. P...
**#5** [My Weekly Selection, 16th Week. Community World Of Pilar](https://steemit.com/@adeljose/my-weekly-selection-16th-week-community-world-of-pilar) -- **by @adeljose with a current reward of 6 SBD**
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>World Of Xpilar is a community led by the friend xpilar, which is based on supporting original content of good quality, which has to do with art, literature, nature and animal photography, digital image design, stories and even contests. SOURCE We continue with the Saturday edition of My Weekly Support, in which I support three high quality publications that have attracted my attention, but have not exceeded 3 dollars as a reward at the time of publication, this being the limit to be ...
**#6** [Review Anne With an E](https://steemit.com/@culturegeek/review-anne-with-an-e) -- **by @culturegeek with a current reward of 6 SBD**
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> I must say that to see a series I have to be well informed about it, if I see that I might like it I see its first chapters. It also depends on how successful you are and whether other peoples reviews speak highly of the series. And that is the case of Anne With an E, I had been seeing people talk wonders of this series for a while, so I was forced to see it. Anne with an E tells us the story of Anne, an orphan girl and very talkative, who receives the news that she will be adopted by a c...
**#7** [btc has got sound correction yesterday83](https://steemit.com/@jhdklk853/btc-has-got-sound-correction-yesterday-8-3) -- **by @jhdklk853 with a current reward of 5 SBD**
>Bitcoin and Ethereum, which started yesterday82 0000, UTC0 at 11827388, showed a sharp drop in 38 minutes after surpassing 12,000400 in four hours. Bitcoin and Ethereum fell 1422 from its peak to 10560327, closing at 11072373 on Bitmex. Considering there was nothing special FUD in the market, I guess the reason for the decline is the correction for sharp rising in last two weeks. In particular, it is not normal for the market to rise endlessly without correction since Ethereums 1d RSI reach...
**#8** [The Diary Game Aug 3, 2020 The Legendary Meal](https://steemit.com/@cryptopie/the-diary-game-aug-3-2020-the-legendary-meal) -- **by @cryptopie with a current reward of 5 SBD**
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> Mother told me that she will just buy some fried meat for me, I just agreed because I usually do not like what they are cooking for a viand so these is what I haved had for my breakfast and lunch combo. I do not know if I would ever eat supper but I guess I will if I feel like eating again. There are still salted crabs in the refrigerator and it needs to get consumed as quickly as possible. I didnt felt anything about eating those crabs so I do believe that I had done the best techni...
**#9** [The Diary Game 01 08 2020 Microgreen Brazilian Spinach Progress](https://steemit.com/@littlenewthings/wherein-1596422879073-s) -- **by @littlenewthings with a current reward of 5 SBD**
> baby Dad still requires to take more egg whites than egg yolks, with the tiny bit of Brazilian Spinach garnishing together with a bit of salt and pepper, this is becoming one of his staple cleaner diet weekly. Unfortunately becuase such a small pot theres only so much to harvest. Recently the heat wave during the weekend has pretty much gotten the terrarium microgreens to dry up further. Probably need to spray some water in between weeks, but so far so good. I havent seen any...
**#10** [Summer Challenge Yesterday was a the hottest summer day so far and what better ...](https://steemit.com/@umaofficial/appics-v1-appics-im-246978) -- **by @umaofficial with a current reward of 4 SBD**
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>... way to spend it than with your friends in nature Since agent soldier and I sit inside on our laptops most of the time we decided to not just spend the day sitting or laying in the sun, but instead get active and take a canoe out on the lake, read, write, bathe in sunshine and create some content Of course we had to take the opportunity to join the summer challenge created by lonistellina and charline.cherie Share your colorful summer moment on APPICS with the hashtag summerofa...
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