First thing I would do, (If I had the power to make a change) is to remove the trending page as the landing page for new visitors to the site and replace it with a new one showing the best of what steemit has to offer. Maybe it could be curated by a respected group like @curie.
I hear many of the trenders saying that they are paying to get to the trending page for exposure and that is understandable but, Would it not be better to get to a curated page by producing quality content.
This Would give all steemians a chance of being read and also help to reign in the Bitbots without having to make major changes to how the system works.
Would love to hear other peoples thoughts on this.