Ok these are articles from projects that are just now entering mainnet. Their main difference from steem being they are platforms preparing to enable groups to set up a huge range of DAOs, including steem style registries. I think these articles are relevant and might help you in the direction you going.
On token curated registries
https://medium.com/@ilovebagels/token-curated-registries-1-0-61a232f8dac7
Grading content on a TCR with up and down votes:
https://medium.com/@sebastian.gajek/graded-token-curated-decisions-with-up-downvoting-designing-cryptoeconomic-ranking-and-2ce7c000bb51
Daostack article on decentralized governance
https://medium.com/daostack/decentralized-governance-first-principles-1fc6eaa492ed
"What community governance actually entails"
https://blog.aragon.one/aragon-will-be-community-governed-5069ed8d0a33
Thread on governance algorithms:
https://reddit.com/comments/4rtpmm
These articles are from:
Argon - their "newspaper" is here (https://monthly.aragon.one/news/aragon/)
Daostack
District0x - another project to look at