Previous discussion on the previous attempt to restart it (which includes a comment from the OP of this discussion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10326550
A cool feature would be submitting a poll or Ask with a flag called [community]. It would mean: I give up any karma for posting this poll|Ask thread.
It's simple: one bit. Anyone who asks a community question and doesn't mark it [community] is fair game to be flagged into oblivion.
That should remove the incentive for karma-whores, while giving the community at large a chance to self-administer itself.
Those idea threads are clearly popular, losing them is kind of sad.