Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 14238 SBD and 1328 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 Another Free ChibiFighters Giveaway and a Boost for you Minnows! -- by @brittuf with a current reward of 329 SBD
willbeonceagain8 won 2 Billion Goo! and owen121 won a Free ChibiFighter, that double steemittwitter paid off... Enjoy your Assests Guys! Lets giveaway another Free Chibi! Here is your chance to play ChibiFighters while its still in Beta.ChibiFighters doesnt fully launch before May 12th, so this is an exclusive sneak peek for those who dont have a Founder Chibi. You have to do all the steps to enter this contest. I will validate all contest entries. 1. Follow me on Twitter if your not ...
#2 Minecolonies New Patches -- by @raycoms with a current reward of 279 SBD
Hey everyone, due to a lot of university work I wasnt able to get much done recently again, fortunately, I was able to free myself a bit from it and I worked on a bunch of small fixes and improvements as well as a few nice additions. Also, to decrease our issue counter a bit Closes 2415 Closes 2391 Closes 2414 Closes 2355 Closes 2393 Closes 2403 Closes 2407 First of all, I found out that were having a bunch of issues with citizen mismatching. That means, the references of the entities...
#3 Save money by trading SBDSTEEM in the Steemit Internal Market -- by @tcpolymath with a current reward of 251 SBD
Ive been looking at a lot of users wallets recently as I evaluate accounts for the Minnowbooster whitelist, and one particular pattern keeps popping up. It looks like this This is a record of a user trading SBD for STEEM on an external exchange, and it drives me a little bit nuts. I dont dislike blocktrades; theyre obviously a key player in the success of the platform, theyre heavily invested, and supportive of the community. I dont want to take money away from them. But every time you do...
#4 Girls ruin EVERYTHING !!! 100 yr. Old Institution Gone Forever. -- by @broncnutz with a current reward of 213 SBD
So now they are gonna let girls into the Boy Scouts?! Cant a young kid and his boys have a private tree house fort anymore? What is wrong with these Soy Boy left wing Toxic Masculinity politics that is has now corrupted a 100 year old Institution? The Boy Scouts of America are officially changing their name to just Scouts of America and now gonna let the girls join the group. In my opinion this is a bad idea because eventually the Scouts will become more feminine to cater activities toward...
#5 QueryJane Companies rating system -- by @kit.andres with a current reward of 209 SBD
QueryJane is a web application developed with Django that allows to connect with companies and experts in different sectors of the cannabis industry. Beta version is available here. This new feature is a rating system that allows users to leave a feedback about registered companies. This is a typical five stars bases feedback. Only users that are not administrators of a company can score it. Take a look to the new model source When a user scores a company, a new instance of this...
#6 Dtube Steemit What is a City Without Water? -- by @melissacynthia with a current reward of 207 SBD
The drought in the Western Cape province of South Africa began in 2015. It is most notably affecting the mother city Cape Town. With dam levels critically low, the city announced plans for Day Zero. Day Zero will be when the municipal water supply is shut off, if a particular lower limit of water storage is reached. Potentially making Cape Town the first major modern city to run out of water. Through water saving measures the City has reduced its daily water consumption by more than ...
#7 Chickenosaurus -- by @reddust with a current reward of 180 SBD
Gallus gallus domesticus Theropoda! Finished When I posted my finished drawing my commenters wanted the background to stay blank or add a blue sky with clouds. I decided to accommodate both choices. I put the blue sky and clouds inside the balloon and kept the background blank. Thank you all for your critiques and ideas, you all are part of this painting. I always feel like I will never finish a big piece, the details can be overwhelming. However, I enjoyed each layer and struggling with m...
#8 Using Scoped Model in a MultiPage or Tabbed Application with Darts Flutter Framework -- by @tensor with a current reward of 156 SBD
You will learn how to interface Scoped Model with multiple pages You will learn how to force a UI update from Scoped Model You will learn how to properly structure a model You will learn about listeners in Scoped Model You will learn how to use Routes and Tabs System Requirements IDEA intellij, Visual Studio Code with the DartFlutter Plugins, Android Studio or Xcode The Flutter SDK on the latest Master Build An Android or iOS Emulator or device for testing Windows 7 SP1 or late...
#9 PARIS EIFFEL TOWER IN LAS VEGAS? IT SURE IS! -- by @stackin with a current reward of 146 SBD
Hey Stackers, I was strolling the Las Vegas Strip and decided to took this epic shot of the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Resort. My photography skills are getting better everyday I think. They have something called the Eiffel Tower Experience in which you can go to the top and view the whole Las Vegas Strip. Its around 20 to get in but still worth the experience. Im planning to do more of these Vegas hotspots Pics in the near future that go into mor...
#10 CHESTER ZOO adventures Part2 Orangutans, RAINFOREST PARADISE, butterfly garden -- by @martaesperanza with a current reward of 126 SBD
Heres a second part to my Chester Zoo blog I posted yesterday, if you havent seen it yet feel free to visit my profile and have a look first as theres some exciting stuff to read! So continuing where I left of, stepping outside the tropical jungle the next step was . Orangutans! One of my favourite stops! I was so happy to see a little baby orangutan peaking from behind the rock to see us! It was so adorable, along with the grown ups, who covered themselves in blankets and relaxe...
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I have no problem with self-votes. It is one small way to get a return on your investment. People either dump a lot of time into their posts, or they dump a lot of money into buying Steem (or both). It seems fair to me to give yourself a small leg up.
After all, one 100% vote for your won post is only 10% of your daily vote allotment.