user191: So there's been a bit of talk about maybe raising this site's reputation threshold, potentially locking out users out of the privileges they have for now, making them need to re-earn them again.
I would like to propose to let the users keep whatever privileges they have already earned, to avoid possible reduction in their activity (content moderation, editing, etc) because I can totally see that happening on this site with our current state of affairs (not enough activity to be able to re-earn those convenient for editing privileges back in a sane amount of time, and without creating artificial and not really needed questions for the sole purpose of earning rep).
This proposition could go for any other SE site, but here I'm mostly worried about our editors going away if they see their tools taken away for no good reason.

user102: If we're worried about this, it means one very clear thing:  we're not yet ready to become a fully-fledged site.
Whatever efforts we have to undertake to accomplish this should be our next focus, and should be where our energies are spent.  The rep levels will change, and as has been mentioned before in comments, hasn't had a negative impact on the communities that have fully graduated.
For comparison, the numbers for this transitional period are simply:

453 users with between 200 and 1,999 reputation
13 users with between 2,000 and 3,000 reputation
45 users with 3,000 or more reputation

Query
If we want to compare that to a fully fledged site, then these are the milestones we'd need users to have:

Voting up and flagging posts: 15 rep
Voting down: 125 rep
Accessing review queues: 500 rep
Full edit privileges:  2,000 rep
Tag synonyms: 2,500 rep
Casting close/reopen votes: 3,000 rep
Approving tag wiki edits: 5,000 rep
Moderator tools: 10,000 rep
Question protection: 15,000 rep

That would mean...

8415 users can't do much moderation of the site
5464 users can upvote and flag posts
762 users can downvote
152 users can access review queues
10 users have full edit privileges
4 users can create tag synonyms
15 users can cast close and reopen votes
17 users can approve tag wiki edits
6 users can access moderator tools
7 users can protect questions

Query
Note that both of these queries aren't accumulative; they're more hard cutoffs than anything else.  This is meant to give us a rough idea of the picture.

191: <p>So there's been a bit of talk about maybe raising this site's reputation threshold, potentially locking out users out of the privileges they have for now, making them need to re-earn them again.</p>

<p>I would like to propose to let the users keep whatever privileges they have already earned, to avoid possible reduction in their activity (content moderation, editing, etc) because I can totally see that happening on this site with our current state of affairs (not enough activity to be able to re-earn those convenient for editing privileges back in a sane amount of time, and without creating artificial and not really needed questions for the sole purpose of earning rep).</p>

<p>This proposition could go for any other SE site, but here I'm mostly worried about our editors going away if they see their tools taken away for no good reason.</p>
 102: <p>If we're worried about this, it means one very clear thing:  <strong>we're not yet ready to become a fully-fledged site.</strong></p>

<p>Whatever efforts we have to undertake to accomplish this should be our next focus, and should be where our energies are spent.  The rep levels will change, and as has been mentioned before in comments, hasn't had a negative impact on the communities that have fully graduated.</p>

<p>For comparison, the numbers for this transitional period are simply:</p>

<ul>
<li>453 users with between 200 and 1,999 reputation</li>
<li>13 users with between 2,000 and 3,000 reputation</li>
<li>45 users with 3,000 or more reputation</li>
</ul>

<p><a href="http://data.stackexchange.com/anime/query/632943/suggested-beta-reputation-markers" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Query</a></p>

<p>If we want to compare that to a fully fledged site, then these are the milestones we'd need users to have:</p>

<ul>
<li>Voting up and flagging posts: 15 rep</li>
<li>Voting down: 125 rep</li>
<li>Accessing review queues: 500 rep</li>
<li>Full edit privileges:  2,000 rep</li>
<li>Tag synonyms: 2,500 rep</li>
<li>Casting close/reopen votes: 3,000 rep</li>
<li>Approving tag wiki edits: 5,000 rep</li>
<li>Moderator tools: 10,000 rep</li>
<li>Question protection: 15,000 rep</li>
</ul>

<p>That would mean...</p>

<ul>
<li>8415 users can't do much moderation of the site</li>
<li>5464 users can upvote and flag posts</li>
<li>762 users can downvote</li>
<li>152 users can access review queues</li>
<li>10 users have full edit privileges</li>
<li>4 users can create tag synonyms</li>
<li>15 users can cast close and reopen votes</li>
<li>17 users can approve tag wiki edits</li>
<li>6 users can access moderator tools</li>
<li>7 users can protect questions</li>
</ul>

<p><a href="http://data.stackexchange.com/anime/query/632963/required-full-site-reputation-markers" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Query</a></p>

<p>Note that both of these queries aren't accumulative; they're more hard cutoffs than anything else.  This is meant to give us a rough idea of the picture.</p>
