Personally, I don't think you can fix the bot services. They have been created on faulty foundations, and make the system progressively more imbalanced then it already is.

I would go for option number b "suggest another system.", one that for example your post gets promoted in a special area (like ads in google) that is actually visible (unlike the currently promoted area of steemit) but the sbd you spend actually get burned or donated to cancer research or something :P