Users get to view close votes at 250 rep, which helps gradually slide them into moderating the community by showing them a little more of what's going on. This is really cool as it lets you get more involved, but at the same time makes you want to get more rep to actually cast close votes yourself.
Could we do the same with delete votes? I'm not at 10k and can't see them or cast them, so I don't know how often they come up or how relevant they are or much about them in general. But IMHO if they are like close votes at all it'd be a cool way to do the same thing that getting 250 rep does with a bigger privilege and help usher people in to make the jump between 3k and 10k.
Thoughts? :D