## Trending Posts Without Bid Bots and Self Votes In the last 24 hours alone people spent at least **3721 SBD and 23446 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](https://steemit.com/steemit/@trufflepig/daily-truffle-picks-2021-10-08), 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** [Siz Contest How Technology has made Impact on Your Life 50 Steem Prize Pool](https://steemit.com/@siz-official/siz-contest-or-or-how-technology-has-made-impact-on-your-life-or-or-50-steem-prize-pool) -- **by @siz-official with a current reward of 54 SBD**

> Hope you all are good and safe. You are showing great interest in siz Contest so we are very thankful to all participants. Now SIZ Contest brings a new topic for all Steemit users Tell us how Technology has made Impact on Your life SIZ is based on the concept of educating others so we are launching this contest where you will answer few questions to make your entry. 1 How Technology has made Impact on Your Life? 2 Tell us Which Technology has changed your life? 3 What was the... **#2** [A Brief Steemit MeetUp Amidst The Pandemic and Helping A Friend To Create Steemit AccountSteemit Promotion Campaign Series by juichi](https://steemit.com/@juichi/a-brief-steemit-meet-up-amidst-the-pandemic-and-helping-a-friend-to-create-steemit-account-or-or-steemit-promotion-campaign) -- **by @juichi with a current reward of 44 SBD**

>Finally, Japan had lifted its state of emergency meaning everything is slowly going back to normal now. In the area where I live, Hachinohe Aomori, coronavirus cases still exist and vaccination is ongoing. I have not received my scheduled date for vaccination yet, so I just put all my trust in the Lord. Its been a month since we made an order for Steemshirts together with my fellow Steemians here in Japan. Finally, we were able to have it last week. The design was just simple, we just wa... **#3** [PROVIDING BRANDED WRITING MATERIAL FOR YOUNG SCHOOL CHILDRENARRANGEMENTS FOR SCHOOL UNIFORMTHURSDAY PROMOSTEEM SHOUTOUT](https://steemit.com/@benton3/providing-branded-writing-material-for-young-school-children-arrangements-for-school-uniform-thursday-promosteem-shoutout) -- **by @benton3 with a current reward of 42 SBD**

> Hello friend, a good day to you all. Good to be with you all once more through this medium. I am doing great and I know you all are good. Today is a very great and wonderful day for all steemit promoters in Nigeria. Why? It is SHOUTOUT THURSDAY. Every Thursday in the week, we all don our promosteem Tshirts, steemit face Caps, banners and flyers to shout out loud for people from every nooks and crannies to hear about steemit. ngoenyi made a clarion call for that, and we responded ... **#4** [How to practice Chinese on your own. All tools and methods](https://steemit.com/@talk.chinese/how-to-practice-chinese-on-your-own-all-tools-and-methods) -- **by @talk.chinese with a current reward of 41 SBD**

>Since just studying with books is boring. I want to start with the most pleasant and fun way to start learning Chinese on your own. It is very hard to learn without immersing into language atmosphere. Movies are great for practicing language as well as understanding culture and mentality. Language is not just a list of words and grammar rules. It is important to learn a new language in context with culture, history, mentality and etc. Songs can train your listening skills and improve you... **#5** [Steem Powerup Plan! SteemitPak Plans to Powerup Daily!](https://steemit.com/@steemit-pak/steem-powerup-plan-steemit-pak-plans-to-powerup-daily) -- **by @steemit-pak with a current reward of 39 SBD**

> Hello Everyone, this is steemitpak. The Official Country Curation account of Pakistan. We are glad to see all of you working hard for the development of the community and its official account. Soon we will be touching new heights of success on the platform. There is this very new announcement which will b e the first step in the development of a powerful country curation account. As we can see from the title, SteemitPak is now planning to do a Powerup on almost every day. Since t... **#6** [Lagos City Steemit Promotion Was A Huge Success In Unilag Nigeria Participating In The Nigerian Weekly Promotion From Lagos City I Love Steemit And I Love Promoting Steemit 10 Post Payout To promosteem.com](https://steemit.com/@talktofaith/lagos-city-steemit-promotion-was-a-huge-success-in-unilag-nigeria-or-or-participating-in-the-nigerian-weekly-promotion-from) -- **by @talktofaith with a current reward of 37 SBD**

> It was really a blast and a huge success today as Lagos City participates in the Nigerian weekly Thursdays steemit promotion. So its my pleasure to bring back the feedback of our Promotion. The Promotion was done by talktofaith, gracellagift and ammyy. We visited University of Lagos again today for our Promotion. The reception we got from the guys we met was so welcoming. Though its quite unfortunate that everyone we met today have never heard of steemit since their life time. This s... **#7** [Youtube Promotion Videos of SteemFoods Community and Steemit Coming Soon! w Collaborating with Professional Video Creators](https://steemit.com/@steemitfoods/youtube-promotion-videos-of-steemfoods-community-and-steemit-coming-soon-w-collaborating-with-professional-video-creators) -- **by @steemitfoods with a current reward of 37 SBD**

> Hello Everyone Today, I will give you detailed information about the SteemFoods X Professional Youtube Content Creators Collaboration, which I will start to promote the SteemFoods Community in the global world. We can see that the videos about the SteemFoods Community and the promotion of steemit are very few on youtube and the interaction like the number of views of the videos, comments... is low. I know that promotions are very important for users from different countries to meet... **#8** [PROMOSTEEM Promoting Steemit In Owerri 10 goes to Promosteem](https://steemit.com/@michaelu40/promo-steem-promoting-steemit-in-owerri-or-10-goes-to-promosteem) -- **by @michaelu40 with a current reward of 35 SBD**

> Hello Promoters, I hope you all are doing fine. I have just gotten my Tshirt for the steem promo shoutout on Thursdays, courtesy of ngoenyi and planned to engage in the steem promo on Thursday, but I became very ill on Tuesday and has to visit the hospital where I was diagnosed that I have cold and started the treatment immediately. However, because steemit has become part of me, I still managed to send the fliers to some of my contacts in promoting steem to them. I sent them the soft co... **#9** [THURSDAY PROMOSTEEM SHOUTOUT AND PAYING 10 STEEM FOR MORE PROMOTIONAL FLYERS WAS SUCCESSFUL BY IJELADY 10 TO PROMOSTEEM.CM](https://steemit.com/@ijelady/thursday-promosteem-shoutout-and-paying-10-steem-for-more-promotional-flyers-was-successful-by-ijelady-10-to-promosteem-cm) -- **by @ijelady with a current reward of 32 SBD**

> classtextcenter It was really something great to always remember that every Thursday of the week has been dedicated to steemit to go out and shoutout, create awareness let people know about Steemit and ap happy i participated with my 2 newbies on Steemit prudent85 and lazbless but lazbless last Thursday was her first time of promoting Steemit, she came to my office as early as 8am to write her first contest on Steemkids Community which is what is compassion? By 10am I told her am... **#10** [What is a GOOD VPN?](https://steemit.com/@skycorridors/what-is-a-good-vpn) -- **by @skycorridors with a current reward of 32 SBD** > VPNs are often considered an essential part of your toolkit if you want to live a modern, privacyconscious lifestyle... but most computer security experts will tell you that theyre not tools for privacy AT ALL! When you use a consumer VPN, the VPN company is able to see everything youre doing. Many log and even sell all of your data. And even if they promise not to, its difficult to verify. But that doesnt mean we need to avoid commercial VPNs altogether there can be good reasons to u... So? What is your opinion about these non-bot trending posts? Before I forget, do not miss out on checking my other top list of [DAILY TRUFFLE PICKS](https://steemit.com/steemit/@trufflepig/daily-truffle-picks-2021-10-08) to help minnows and promote good content! Moreover, if you want to find out more about me, [here I give a detailed explanation about my inner workings](https://steemit.com/steemit/@trufflepig/weekly-truffle-updates-2021-40). ## Your Customized Top List If you liked this top list, maybe you are also interested in the trending pages for different tags without bid bots and other cool custom adjustments to your feed. In this case I can recommend you the awesome frontend developed by @jga: [HERE IS YOUR PERSONALIZED STEEMIT FEED](https://joticajulian.github.io/custom-feed/). ## You can Help and Contribute By upvoting and resteeming this top list, you help covering the server costs and finance further development and improvements. **NEW**: You may further show your support for me and all my daily truffle picks by [**following my curation trail**](https://steemauto.com/dash.php?trail=trufflepig&i=1) on SteemAuto! ## Delegate and Invest in the Bot If you feel generous, you can delegate Steem Power to me and boost my daily upvotes on the truffle posts in my other top list. In return, I will provide you with a *small* compensation for your trust in me and your locked Steem Power. **Half of my daily SBD and STEEM income will be paid out to all my delegators** proportional to their Steem Power share. Payouts will start 3 days after your delegation. Click on one of the following links to delegate **[2](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=3706.699%20VESTS), [5](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=9266.748%20VESTS), [10](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=18533.495%20VESTS), [20](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=37066.991%20VESTS), [50](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=92667.477%20VESTS), [100](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=185334.954%20VESTS), [200](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=370669.909%20VESTS), [500](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=926674.772%20VESTS), [1000](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=1853349.544%20VESTS), [2000](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=3706699.088%20VESTS),** or even **[5000 Steem Power](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=&delegatee=trufflepig&vesting_shares=9266747.721%20VESTS)**. Thank You! Cheers, ![trufflepig](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SmokinCaterpillar/TrufflePig/master/img/trufflepig17.png) *`TrufflePig`*