Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 575 SBD and 18231 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 AGFAcademy Curation Digest from 1626 Dec, 2018 -- by @agfacademy with a current reward of 46 SBD
Welcome To The Daily AGFAcademy Curation Digest Complements of the season to you guys, this is Team Andre and we are pleased to show you once again, how trainees are doing in various regions of the world using the agfacademy tag. It has been a while since the last update. Our actual intention is to start a contest but due to the season we in, we would like to hold it a little bit till January. By then, every festivity ought to be over and trainees will have more time to concentrate on ...
#2 Will the Blockchain Topple Political Borders? -- by @mobymom with a current reward of 33 SBD
Sitting here, watching the migrants massed at the southern US border; watching news clips of people fleeing war torn nations and living in squalor in tent cities waiting for entry into European nations; reading headlines of Venezuelan refugees straining the Brazilian economy; I am left wondering why we have artificial borders at all. It cant be something hardwired into our genes. Early man wandered freely, going where the food was easy to get, fleeing bad climates, or maybe just to see what...
#3 utopianio ipsutil Python package for manipulating IPS patches -- by @nleseul with a current reward of 32 SBD
The International Patching System IPS patch format is a historically popular distribution format for ROM hacks. Its a very simple format, and a number of tools exist for creating IPS patches from binary data. I wanted to be able to create IPS patches programatically in Python scripts, however, and no existing library provided that support. So I made one. I got enough testing and polish done on the library that I chose to upload it to PyPI as a formal Python package. As such, a released ve...
#4 Perfect Pumpkin Pie -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 25 SBD
While pumpkin is a popular fall flavor, I am such a big fan of pumpkin pie that I indulge in this amazing autumnal treat year round. I have made so many of these pies over the years that I have managed to perfect my recipe and come up with a few interesting variations. Here is the recipe for my basic pumpkin pie. Its super simple to throw together and such a scrumptious pie that its sure to please everyone who tastes it. And its even better when topped with a pile of whipped cream or ice c...
#5 Health Benefits of Eating Pumpkin -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 25 SBD
altPumpkin Pie, Autumn, Holiday, Baked, Delicious To pair with my recently posted pie recipe, you should know that as far as pie goes, the main ingredient in pumpkin pie has a slew of health benefits that should cancel out some of the guilt you may feel eating this delectable dessert. Yes it still has some sugar in it, but pumkin pie is still full of carotenoids like betacarotene and lutein, both of which are important for healthy eyes and other mucus membranes. Other antioxidant phyton...
#6 Boom Steak Restauran in Krabi its a great value but dont expect much -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 25 SBD
Inexpensive steakhouses are very popular in Thailand. Not inexpensive ones are as well but this appeals to a far more affluent sector of the community. As expensive as going to a fancy steakhouse is in the west, it is likely more expensive here in Thailand because we have no easy access to quality beef. classpullright This one is called Boom Steak but there are places just like it all over the place. You can go into this place and order a steak for 2 and up. Obviously, this is not ...
#7 Curie Author Showcase December 27, 2018 -- by @curie with a current reward of 24 SBD
photo of the day Image property of danmaruschak In the 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 t...
#8 Bistro Monaco Krabi restaurant massive portions -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 24 SBD
This comes as a follow up to my review for a seriously cheap place in Krabi called Boom Steak which was extremely lowcost but not really the nicest place to eat. source This is currently rated as the number 2 restaurant in all of Krabi and I have to say after eating there, it is now one of my favorite restaurants in the region. This was a bit more expensive than Boom Steak but the portions were HUGE and the food was a completely different caliber. There really wasnt much chance I was ...
#9 The Final Fantasy 14 quest system is just terrible -- by @gooddream with a current reward of 24 SBD
I play this game almost every day because I enjoy MMOs. This one is a winner if you are a fan of the franchise and enjoy PvE content which i do. The game can be acquired for what is actually a very good price at the moment. I hope that this price drop isnt an indication that the series is failing but it has been around for a very long time... who knows? !pp,550x550.u2.jpg source The game is like many others. You have to level up in order to get to more difficult content and for me...
#10 Wunk and SquidgicumSquee Fearsome Critters -- by @pinkspectre with a current reward of 24 SBD
The Wunk and SquidgicumSquee are two fearsome critters of the same nature. Both are said to inhabit the forests of North America, and neither can truly be described because no one has ever seen their true form. According to legend, Wunks are an incredibly shy breed. When they sense an approaching human, they quickly dig a hole in which they hide. They also have the ability to shapeshift into any form they please, including taking human form. SqudgicumSquees are also shy shapeshifters. Ho...
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