Heads-up that your bounty is about to expire. Disclaimer: I wrote an answer to the question.

@kitingChris Everyone starts from 1 rep, including me, so I have experienced what you experienced. The current rep system is not perfect but it certainly keeps out spam and low quality contributions.

@kitingChris The rules for the rep system are the same across all SE sites, so your lack of activity here still doesn't prevent me from being surprised by your question.

@kitingChris I am surprised by your meta question given that you have been on Stack Overflow and TeX - LaTeX for 4 years and have a decent amount of rep there, and the rules for these 2 sites are largely similar to Ask Ubuntu's.

@Zanna Perhaps you want to introduce the extremely useful "Skip" button for editors who come across reasonable-looking code/command edits but lack the necessary knowledge/expertise to determine if the edits are technically sound.

I mean "users with no votes vs users with 1 to 10 type of data". We may want to not bin the data to see how it looks like first before binning them.

It would be nice to get some idea of what the distributions of these variables look like.