Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 18282 SBD and 1108 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!
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 Curie Author Showcase May 4th, 2018 -- by @curie with a current reward of 241 SBD
In spirit of Curies mission to promote undiscovered but exceptional content, we wish to use this twice weekly section to provide an author showcase for some of the outstanding authors who received Curie upvotes in past week. Curie curators and reviewers nominate authors for inclusion in this showcase and author approval is sought and attained. For those new to Curie, please follow curie, and join us on Discord Follow curies votes to support the authors. Please consider following our t...
#2 Virtual reality goes mainstream -- by @techchat with a current reward of 213 SBD
Oculus, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for 2.3 billion, has released the first mainstream virtual reality headset, Oculus Go. The headset is the first mobile virtual reality headset that doesnt require a phone for power or connection to a computer. The Oculus Go costs 199 for 32GB and 249 for 64GB and can be found at any electronics shop like Best Buy. It ships with a controller you use as a wand throughout your experiences. You navigate by pointing and clicking throughout your apps....
#3 Utopian.io Hack May 3rd May 4th 2018. No Wallets Or Keys Compromised. -- by @utopian-io with a current reward of 198 SBD
Due to a recent attack on Utopian services, flaws in our system have been exploited, allowing for full disruption of one of our main production servers and partial loss of data. Rewards from this post will be donated to Busy.org SteemConnect for their help in stopping the attack. The attack started yesterday. It was initially identified as a service disruption only, but it appears that wasnt the case. Our main production server was completely erased. Our CDN, which contained files and...
#4 Robot News Is LaGuardia Airports surveillance robot a pervert? -- by @techblogger with a current reward of 190 SBD
According to recent news LaGuardia Airport just got a new surveillance robot and it is making life more stressful for passengers arriving via Terminal B. Beyond that, reports are inferring that people should now prepare themselves to be stared and and even potentially stalked by this new security robot. According to airport officials the robot is still in the testing phase, and those same airport officials have placed the autonomous surveillance robot outside Terminal B. It has now become...
#5 Free Networkwide Ad Blocking with PiHole -- by @themarkymark with a current reward of 135 SBD
Source While I still believe uBlock Origin is by far the best ad blocking solution available, it only affects the devices that run desktop version of Chrome Firefox. PiHole is a free solution that installs on a Raspberry Pi 35 all in one computer to block ads on all devices on your network from Refrigerators, SmartTVs, Mobile Devices, and consoles. Will even block ads in mobile games. It has a nice central administration web interface where you can track how it is doing and customize i...
#6 Whatever will be will be; If it is for me,it will come to me. Really? -- by @kwakumax with a current reward of 126 SBD
The truth has always been clear and surprisingly people choose to look away when delicate issues such as this is being debated on. The world as I have come to see it is never a fair space but those who are willing to sacrifice, commit and endure will always enjoy the fruits of their labor which sometimes extends to their descendants. Image Source The notion that if you try out something and it doesnt work, the most logical thing to do is to give up since whatever will be, will be. If ...
#7 Triple Berry Pie -- by @mrchef111 with a current reward of 123 SBD
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How to make Triple Berry Pie Easy Berry Pie Recipe.jpg In this video myself and my friend Kelly will show you how to make a triple berry pie. This berry pie recipe is super easy to make, using blackberries, strawberries, and blueberries. This is the first time I have had someone on the show other then myself. It was a lot of fun! Big thanks to Kelly for coming on the show. If we can make this berry pie you can make it, lets get started! Dont forget to follow me, upvote and resteem! If ...
#8 Unlock Bursts of Energy by Transmuting Sadness and Fear into Love and Hope! 194 -- by @jerrybanfield with a current reward of 123 SBD
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Unlock Bursts of Energy by Transmuting Sadness and Fear into Love and Hope! 194.jpg How do we change sadness and despair into hope, love, faith, fantastic energy and passion? Im grateful today to have this to share with you because this is what I just did, and I hope it shows the good sides of things like hope, sadness and despair. I hope it gives a very clear way to get fantastic levels of energy and enthusiasm in life. Thank you for reading about day 194 of Happier People Podcast and I ...
#9 EXCLUSIVE DTube Video 105 The Simulation Hypothesis -- by @tanbay with a current reward of 122 SBD
a Does matter give rise to mind, or does the mind give rise to matter? Thats a question that has been bugging Philosophers and scientists for centuries, but we may have just found the answer! Im trying a new segment that Im calling PhilosophyFriday and in todays exclusive DTube video Im looking at the Simulation Hypothesis. If you are not familiar with it, you can read more about it here httpsen.wikipedia.orgwikiSimulationhypothesis I am doing my best to explain it in a rational, logic...
#10 Something I painted today! Plus the process and a video forthcoming. -- by @midlet with a current reward of 119 SBD
I painted this today as a demo for digital painting class. It took about three hours. I was pretty excited because I actually managed to record the process with OBS only crashing a few times! Luckily I was vigilant and when it crashed I was able to stop before making any more progress. Anyway, I successfully captured all the video. Im not all that into watching people paint for three hours, so I didnt think you all would be either, so I wanted to speed up the footage to maybe around twelv...
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It does really suck when all you want to do is find a good article but you have to search through all of the steem schemes. Kind of ruins the platform in my opinion. Thanks for the post.