<p><strong>Question</strong>: Do moderators receive any sort of notification when a vote to close is submitted by a user with 3000+ reputation?</p>

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<p>It appears that if a user with 3000+ chooses to flag and picks "doesn't belong here", then, instead of flagging, the software instead will "automatically" submit a vote to close.</p>

<p>Now, on many SE sites, this will work just fine and is probably the preferred behavior. However, on smallish sites, like stats.SE, where there are only 13 users with 3K+ rep (and at least one of them is MIA), this behavior seems less desirable.</p>

<p>In essence, it is virtually impossible to gather the five necessary votes to close, even if the question is <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/10863/assignment-questions-on-transformation-convergence-inference">indisputably and unboundedly bad</a>.</p>

<p>One can also "flag" a question surreptitiously by choosing "other" under "needs moderator attention" or something similar. But, I don't want to annoy the moderators with two notifications where one will suffice. Hence, my question.</p>
