That's more or less what I was thinking; like a system where each day the total number of views, likes, resteem, etc, would factor into how the steem gets distributed... Could still keep a weighting for the amount of sp a person has, while limiting motivation for bots.
I know a bit of programming, enough to explain the logic, but not good enough to implement it myself.
If we take everything you know about programming, @bmanmcfly, and add all my knowledge about programming, we'd still have something equal to only your knowledge about programming 'cause I don't know any of it. :-) What I do know is how it feels to be a participant on the platform and see ways in which it could be tweaked, without having those tweaking skills.
But that's the value of Community. Someone is probably already working on good solutions.