We have a chat room is used for highlighting questions to close. It generally works quite well.
Whilst it only takes 3k to be able to vote it unfortunately takes 10k to get to the tools to help you do this. I believe that this is because it is relatively easy to get 3k on StackOverflow so people 'come into their powers' before they may have absorbed enough of the culture to use them correctly. Sadly this isn't true of SF and other stackexchange sites where gaining 3k rep is quite an achievement and most people will have absorbed the culture by the time they get there.