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This has been asked many times when sites graduated and the request was always denied by SE. Having enough users with the necessary reputation to moderate the site is one of the graduation requirement. We actually have comparatively many high-reputation users for a freshly graduated site, so I see no big problem there.

Welcome to the community, Adam! I think that most of your question was already well answered by the community moderators. I would like to provide a little bit of further context to explain why we choose the rules to be as restrictive as they are. One of the basic tenants of StackExchange sites is to be exclusive and not inclusive. We do not want "general ...

It was made community-wiki by being edited 10 times, I've removed the community wiki status from the post again.

I'm taking this from freiheit's excellent answer to this same question on Bicycles: My suggestions for handling the upcoming rep changes: For editing other people's posts, this should be easy enough: anybody can propose an edit and some other higher-rep users can approve it. If you're one of those 11 non-moderator people over 2000 rep points do please ...

No, the score stays at 1 for the duration of the suspension. It goes back to the original value afterwards. Depending on the severity of the problem behavior — and at the complete discretion of the moderator — your account will be placed in timed suspension for anywhere from 1 to 365 days. That means: Your account will be locked at 1 reputation. ...

Adam, welcome to Skeptics. :) I totally understand your frustration. I know that it may seem counter intuitive that you can leave answers before you can leave comments. However, I think there is a reason for that (I don't know since I wasn't involved in the website launch, so this is supposition on my part). You really must put forth the effort to provide ...

Welcome to the Skeptics.SE, Syzygy. I am sorry your first experience was so confusing. I recommend having a read of our Welcome to New Users. It explains some of the ways in which we are different to other forums. One of the biggest ways we are different is in how we deal with opinions. Other sites (e.g. YouTube, Reddit, Twitter and the comments section on ...

If a user is removed, all their votes are removed as well. So this was likely a user that had downvoted you once and that was deleted today, which removed his downvotes as well.

You edited a post as a low-rep user. That suggested edit was approved and you earned 2 rep for that. Now a relatively low-rep user account was deleted and the rep-gain for the approved edit was reversed, as it was approved by that now removed other user. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/26077 seems to be the post in question? ...

I realize why I can't write comments with low reputation, however I don't understand why I can't use my reputation from other communities to do it. As Catija mentioned, you actually can use your rep from other sites for commenting. Once you hit 200 reputation on a single site, you will get a 100 reputation bonus for every Stack Exchange site. This should ...

These votes correspond to upvotes from a user who now deleted their account. Account deletion undoes all actions of that user. Consequently all they upvotes are removed.

You forgot one very simple way to earn rep - propose edits to tag wiki's of which we have quite a number without any wiki. I mention because I just saw a comment of yours on an edit which says "Just found the intelligence tag" - which has no tag wiki! Oh, and welcome to Skeptics from me too :)

If you have 200 reputation earned on another StackExchange site (e.g. StackOverflow), then as a new user you start with +100 on any other site you join -- this answer says, you associate accounts of two or more Stack Exchange network sites, and at least one of those accounts already has 200 or more reputation: +100 on each site (awarded a maximum of one ...

I want to start by expressing sympathy. I think you are right that there are some restrictive challenges to new users. Thank you for sticking with it. Then I want to directly address your question: Is there any way for a new, casual user to gain enough reputation so that they participate in a casual manner? Yes. The (IMHO) easy way: Submit a couple of ...