In short: the community as a whole doesn't vote enough : meta.serverfault.com/q/6418/37681

Mostly topicality is not about your job title or actual job, as it is about the quality of the question. (as longs as the subject of your question is topical and you are asking not about home use, development setups etc. etc.

@AnthonyFornito Community elected moderators don't get paid (although I did get a T-shirt once). Some Stack Exchange employees have moderator privileges on specific sites and other employees have super powers on all sites to deal with situations that can't be handled by the community moderators

Let me start by saying thank you. Thank you for joining our community and for answering questions. What you do is valuable if under appreciated. ...