As the moderator concerned, *on occasion* I let the community do their part too...

You, and everybody else with [sufficient reputation](http://serverfault.com/help/privileges/close-questions) in the community, can cast close votes and should do so when you feel there's a need. The moderator vote is absolute and should only be used sparingly (at least that's the theory). 

So unless a question immediately makes my eyes bleed a reasonably well formatted, more-or-less on-topic question but from a PFY  might *"slip by"* and might occasionally even get a helpful comment too. 


A **comment** from a moderator like me, or anybody else for that matter is, is not an [**up vote**](http://serverfault.com/help/privileges/vote-up) nor an endorsement of any question.