In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 2830 SBD and 11458 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, 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!
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 Flowers by the Road in the National Garden of Suncheon -- by 
While walking along the road in the National garden of Suncheon, I noticed the flowers by the road. People usually interested in the flowers of the garden, but the flowers by the road were not the object catching peoples eye. My colleagues were amazing to the roses and other flowers. As I mentioned in the previous post, the roses were in their best when we dropped by the garden. I was looking around my surroundings, there, I found out the flowers waiting for our concern. I photographed ...
#2 Know your Enemy Japan old propaganda film on Netflix how fakenews used to be made -- by 
Know your Enemy Japan is a U.S. Government produced propaganda that comes in the form of an informative documentary intended to be shown to US soldiers and also the general public. The film was never released to these ends because the War came to a quick end right around the time that they were finished making this film. It wasnt shown to the public until many years later. source It should come as no surprise that Know your Enemy is very culturally insensitive and at least by todays st...
#3 Random taco stands are the best -- by
If I had to choose just one food item and only have that to eat for the rest of my life it would be a very tough decision between tacos and pizza. I think that tacos would win in the end. I believe they might be the worlds most perfect food. Whenever I ride my bike for a long distance I tend to go an eat whatever I want during the ride because I am burning a crapton of calories when I ride a bicycle for several hours in a row. I was wandering aimlessly because I tend to not plan my rides...
#4 Decathlon store Thailand This place is amazing I learned a lot -- by
A number of my friends involved in jungle running had been talking about this store for quite some time but since it was on the other side of town I never went to it until yesterday. Turns out it is the largest sporting goods chain in the world according to their sign in the shop so I feel a little bit silly having never heard of them. Maybe they dont have much of a presence in USA but I certainly dont remember seeing any. source I dont really keep it a secret from my friends that I ca...
#5 Phra Phrom statues in Thai neighborhoods -- by
If you live in a suburb of a major city in Thailand or even some minor ones there is a good chance you live in something that is called a moo baan or a neighborhood. Often these moo baans have walls around them and I can only speculate that this is either a gated community or simply some sort of property ider. The larger neighborhoods have a shrine of some sort, normally in some sort of central parklike area. While I have always shown the necessarily civility and respect due to something ...
#6 Motorcycle Travel Series by velimir Angel MirrorPart 727 -- by 
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 read on various subjects follow gavvet For cryp...
#7 Interruption Cards -- by 
A while back I had my kids make interruption cards which they can use at any time, no matter what. Doesnt matter if Im on a conference call, live podcast, or interview. They are the most important thing, and this is how I communicate that. After many months, they never redeemed them and lost them in the move to PR. Recently we created some new ones and for the first time ever, during my weekly meeting yesterday with Dapix, Aria turned one in! The CEO and CPO were gracious and the meeting en...
#8 Join Us For The ecoTrain Question Of The Week THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND -- by 
QUESTION The Unconscious MindWho is really in control of things?! Our minds exist in what i can only describe as a kind of multi layered world, one in which we are consciously aware of so little about what is really going on around and inside us. We exist in the conscious mind, but most of the decisions and prompts that make us do and say the things we do come from another place entirely. The unconscious mind is busy all day and night keeping us safe, alive, and functioning as it thinks w...
#9 Animation -- by 
a Finally, I have managed to finish this project Ive been working for the last 2 months. It took quite a bit, but for me it was definitely worth it. I had a lot of happy moments, a lot of difficulties I loved to get over and quite a few frustrating moments where I didnt exactly know what to do and I had to make some hard choices. This story can be interpreted in many ways. You could take it literally, but I dont suggest that. That shadow, in my mind, is not something concrete, hence the ...
#10 Girls Night Camping, Ghost Of Memories Past -- by 
Oh man, I cant begin to tell how much I needed a night out! Last Saturday I was invited to where my friend goes out camping every summer. Its not rough camping, shes got a 5th wheel camper, cozy and roomy. She camps by a lake that is not too far from here and even though it is not far it is still a great getaway. With being busy and all, I was only able to head out in the late evening, arriving there for 930pm. Thankfully with the longer summer days, we still had some daylight till around 1...
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