the problem is that.
all attempts to promote "quality" projects are in the end nothing more, than attempts of finding some rich people that already having a lot of ressources looking for money earning cattle, and then pumping them, which is ridiculous, why do decentralisation then in the first place?
if you want "quality" why dont you just go to the federal reserve and their "ripple" scam, they have a "quality" project they funded countless manhours to develop their project, and bribed countless people indexes exchanges and media to get attention.
there you have a "quality" project.
regards.
The idea behind Cryptonomy is that the community as a whole can have their say on what they deem worthy or not. User's who constantly contribute quality content increase their reputation, which in change adds more significance to their votes. There isn't a perfect system yet, but I believe this is a much more effective way than anything else that is currently available, and I'm constantly working on making it better!
na you will end up with sectish systems that merit and upvote each other to push their agenda.