Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes
In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least 10 SBD and 140 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 Important Changes to Spaminator -- by @spaminator with a current reward of 51 SBD
This morning the official Steemit Inc delegation to Spaminator was removed. That left Spaminator powerless. The scammers and exploiters rejoiced. But alas, the joy of the scammers was short lived. I would like to apologize to all scammers for cutting their vacation short. We will keep this brief and to the point. The Spaminator Bot the program that operates the downvote function is now back and will be issuing downvotes with theycallmedans account. A great big thanks to theycallmed...
#2 Education Community -- by @steemiteducation with a current reward of 8 SBD
There are over 60 million teachers and 750 million students in the world today. We need to bring them to the Steem Blockchain. Source Steemiteducations goal is to empower educators to empower their students and to help provide an education to anyone with a desire to learn regardless of geographic location or economic status. Our dreams are huge. Some day, we plan to be able to Offer content courses Develop educational technology and apps Share lesson plans Provide howto and tutor...
#3 Chronicle from the lockdown we need good vibes -- by @silviabeneforti with a current reward of 7 SBD
Yes, itx27;s time to boost our lockdown morale to fight the fear and the loneliness during these hard days. Here in my city like in every italian city the streets are desert and everyone is closed at home. Families with children, old couple, young guys and girls, everyone lonely at home. Itx27;s not simple, but itx27;s the only way to contain the contagion and we are doing all the best. Itx27;s not simple. Italian people stay in touch with others using just the phone or, for the most part,...
#4 Dam Pulaw -- by @bdfoods with a current reward of 7 SBD
I hope all Steemians doing good! May the blessings of Allah fill your life with happiness and open all the doors of success now and always. Today Im gonna share with you all Dum Pulaw. Hope youll enjoy it. Ingredients Chinigura Rice Ghee Dry fruits Cardamom Cinnamon Bay leaves Sugar Salt Oil Ginger paste Process Take a pan where youll cook the pulaw. In another pan take water. Water measurement should be double of the rice. As 4 cup rice 8 cup water. Add ghee to that pan. Fry dr...
#5 Justin Sun Directly Attacks Steem Content Creators -- by @adetorrent with a current reward of 5 SBD
By removing delegation from the vital dapps on the Steem Blockchain, Justin Sun has directly attacked the content creators of this platform, who are a core part of the community. Its one thing messing around with witnesses, and playing the powerego game, but its a whole nother thing to attack the very people we are trying to attract, or those people that have been here for 4 years, day in day out, fleshing out the platform. Apart from that, its an attack on the quality of content. Wit...
#6 Sunday Musings Escaping the Onslaught of Constant Overreactions... -- by @denmarkguy with a current reward of 5 SBD
The Coronavirus should be good for Steem... Maybe that sounds like a trivializing statement at least on the surface but realistically speaking surfing the Internet is actually one of the few safe activities we have, during these times of voluntary quarantines and restricted travel. That said, I find myself reaching maximum density and feeling a sort of weary exhaustion on the media shitstorm surrounding it all. As a friend observed yesterday, the real emergency and crisis is being larg...
#7 Justin Sun removed delegations from Dtube and other dapps ! -- by @clixmoney with a current reward of 4 SBD
a For me is the saddest day in steem ! Justin Sun removed delegations from a lot of great projects in steem including dtube and busy.org ! Hes really attacking the community, regular steemians who were just creating and enjoying and earning those a few dollars. We already agreed to create for 5050 split of the rewards, but undelegating from our favorite apps is a strong hit to the rest of the community ! dtube delegation was a big hope for a lot of dtubers. The application worke...
#8 Steems New Super Predator -- by @adetorrent with a current reward of 4 SBD
What happens when a predator enters an ecosystem with little resistance? The threat had always been there, with Ned, but somehow we believed we could do it, so we chugged along. We had small and medium sized predators that preyed on the smaller and weaker beasts, but thats natural in any ecosystem. We had disagreements, flag wars, crazy forks, e.t.c., but somehow have been able to carry on evolving with some beasts going into extinction and new beasts being introduced. We were on the wa...
#9 That was a BOLD move Screwing things over.... -- by @rehan12 with a current reward of 4 SBD
a A very bad day for Steem users. That was a cunning move and controlling things on Steem blockchain for his own sake. So much to say I want good for Steem community by J.Sun. Its understandable that the stake is owned by him but using it this way and making things go sideways is what will break things for a long time. But eventually, all the Dapps will find their way along with the support of the community. This is the right time to show your support for the community. We are here a...
#10 Went out for 3, did 4 -- by @lloyddavis with a current reward of 4 SBD
This morning I ran 4.013km in about 26mm30ss ! This picture is one of the reasons I run. If I didnt Id be at home looking at the most ridiculous things on the internet. A good day today, went out thinking Id just do 3k, about half way through realised Id probably manage 4 and carried on. I do need to swap other things in Im only running one way, till I cant run any more, and in similar surroundings because all the river paths are sodden. So I need to add in different routes, intervals...
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