How is your community spam idea different from RBLs like SpamHaus or the proprietary reputation data maintained by the commercial filtering vendor. The typical vendor pitch is all about how they see more email than everybody else, so they block bad stuff first. For the problem you state, it just does not work. By the time that an attack is detected and publicized, the attacker as changed tactics. Besides, if none of us know how to detect this stuff reliably, then pooling our ignorance cannot make us smarter.
Email has been operating for a long time on a bad security model: "If I cannot prove that the message is harmful, then I have to deliver it to the user." The foolishness of this model should be self-evident. If the global mailstream is more than 75% unwanted messages, and I pick a random message to deliver, what is the probability that it is unwanted and possibly harmful? More than 75 percent, of course.
Your office building probably has a reception area for receiving visitors. It slows them down, but that is not a reason to give every random stranger free access to your building. In email, the reception area for unknown persons is called Quarantine. When you start quarantining every message with unknown reputation, you will have hope of acheiving safe email communication.