Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 799 SBD and 567 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 Bronze Buddha Statue and The Metal Stupa of Goryeo Kingdom in Baekje Museum of 88 Olympiad Park. -- by @slowwalker with a current reward of 133 SBD
The unprecedented relics were waiting for me. It was a surprise those relics were appeared in the corner of the exhibition room. I could not understand why they displayed those Buddha statue and the metal stupa. Maybe, those relics were not related to Yeongkooksa temple. It seemed that the relics in this room were rented to fill the exhibition hole, because the relics excavated from Yeongkooksa temple were not enough for the space. But the relics in this corner space were astonishing for m...
#2 Isaan food the real Thai food -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 72 SBD
I think if you were to ask most people if they like Thai food the answer would likely be yes. Thai food is, without question, the most popular SouthEast Asian cuisine in the world and one of the most iconic types of food overall. However, it surprises me to find out how very few of my western friends who love Thai food, are completely unfamiliar with a very major part of it Isaan food. Isaan sometimes spelled Isan is pronounced eeesaan and is a major part of the country. It consists...
#3 Toad In The Hole A Quick Yummy Breakfast -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 67 SBD
If you are looking for an easy way to mix up your typical egg and toast breakfast, the Toad in the Hole is the answer you didnt know you were looking for. Toad in the Hole also known as Egg in the Basket is such a simple recipe; it was actually the first dish I learned to cook on my own as a child. I remember feeling like an accomplished chef when I completed and served my first batch of Toad in the Hole so long ago. Now I make it on busy mornings for my family when there is no time for elab...
#4 Introducing SteemEconomy.com A Directory of Businesses Accepting STEEMSBD -- by @timcliff with a current reward of 62 SBD
Today I just launched a new website! SteemEconomy.com SteemEconomy.com is an uptodate list of businesses that accept STEEMSBD as a form of payment. The main goals of this website are to 1. Provide Steemians with an easytouse interface where they can find all of the places to spend their hardearned STEEMSBD. 2. Help support the Steem economy by connecting Steembased businesses with potential customers. 3. Encourage more business owners to start accepting STEEMSBD as a form of payment. So...
#5 TRADE.IO. THE NEXT GENERATION TRADING PLATFORM -- by @yohan2on with a current reward of 61 SBD
image Trade.io is a better, smarter, faster cryptocurrency trading platform. It is referred to as the next generation cryptocurrency exchange. It has a huge potential of thriving as compared to other cryptocurrency exchanges that are in existence being that its carefully designed to rectify the problems associated with the current crypto trading platforms. Over 31 million dollars were collected during its ICO implying that this platform has a very steady financial back up or liquidity to s...
#6 Yacht spotting in the Tyrrhenian Sea The A, the words largest sailing yacht Mobile Photography -- by @shaka with a current reward of 52 SBD
Summer last year I was on a cruise in the Tyrrhenian Sea, with a crew of friends. We sailed along the Sardian and Corsican coast, exploring offshore islands and secret bays. One day we had the extraordinary luck to spot one of the most spectacular swimming objects ever built, the Sailing Yacht A! One can always debate about design yet from an engineers viewpoint the construction of this ship really pushed the envelope in shipbuilding technology. Just 9 months after being put into operati...
#7 Feral -- by @lillywilton with a current reward of 41 SBD
a Hey friends! I hope you enjoy this little thang called, Feral. If anyone wants to add anything to it, feel free. Lyrics Lonely days, lonely nights. I just sucked this whole town dry. Gimme shelter, gimme some. I got their hearts and I crushed each and every one. Without you, Im feral, Dangerous and wild. Oh, feral. Got a sinners smile, And I use it, abuse it, make this all my lands. Look around my darlin, all this blood is on your hands. Without you, Im feral. Hungry skin, hungr...
#8 VLOG024 Hiking around Cornish Beaches -- by @stickycj with a current reward of 36 SBD
a As we eluded to in the last vlog, this one was going to be full of hikes. We are really gifted to be living in such a beautiful place during such a fantastic summer. I really think people are going to look back at the summer of 2018 quite fondly. We also have to doggy sit during the day, so Eddie is loving life right now. He does this weird thing where he pretends to not want to go out for a walk when we get his lead and harness. But then once we get out there, he absolutely loves it. ...
#9 Haworthia hybrid project update -- by @nikv with a current reward of 35 SBD
We have pods! People use various implements as a brush when pollinating and I have enough cat whiskers lying around so I collected a few. If pollination hasnt been successful, the spent flower withers and falls off the stalk, like with the Haworthia comptoniana hybrid, where I only have one pod so far. Im pleased that I have had any success, as they are notoriously difficult to set seed on. That is probably why I had no success last time, I was using two plants with a reputation for being ...
#10 Teardrops The Movie, A Childrens Tale by Snook -- by @snook with a current reward of 33 SBD
Projects can be a labor of love. You know the ones. The ideas that sit in the back of your mind niggling, wiggling and reminding. You tend to put off these projects, for a while, because you want to do right by them. You then wait and wait for the perfect moment that never really comes. In my world, Im lucky enough to have a few friends that like what I do. I know myself pretty well by now, so I dont like making promises to do projects for others. I have a bad habit of never getting ...
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Does this take into account autovotes? If not, perhaps it ought to. Eyes on page are what matters most surely?
Due to the nature of the blockchain it is not easy to differentiate between votes and autovotes. The easiest way would be to count the comments
But the number of views used to be shown. This is surely the best metric to use.
Well if you use steem-python (the module the bot is built around), which acesses the Nodes, there is to my knowledge no option to read those metrics.
Note : im not the maintainer of this bot.
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