user9943: So a full site has privileges associated with more reputation points needed:

Users with 15 rep can flag posts.
Users with 500 rep can review posts from new users.
Users with 2,000 rep can edit any question or answer in the system.
Users with 3,000 rep can cast close and open votes.
Users with 10,000 rep can cast delete and undelete votes on questions, and have access to a moderation dashboard.
Users with 15,000 rep can protect posts.
Users with 20,000 rep can cast delete votes on negatively voted answers. 

Now we are still at Beta, users with 4000 rep have access to all the moderation tools. In fact, there are only two people at Bio with 20k rep. 

What will happen with the poor souls like me with 4k < rep < 20k? Will we loose
  our moderator tools?


user12909: Yes you will lose your privileges. You now have to regain them once more. This is also why SE waits a bit so there are enough regular users who do have enough rep to continue being a community moderator. Plus you are on the cusp of getting your 10k privileges back.

user6: You will lose any privileges you now have if you don't meet the higher reputation requirements after graduation.
This is usually not a problem, as sites tend to have enough high reputation users to keep community moderation going. The only really important privilege is closing, and we have 41 users with 3k+ reputation that will still be able to close after graduation. 
All the privileges with higher reputation barriers are nice to have, but they're not essential to community moderation. Deletion of posts is generally handled by diamond moderators on smaller sites anyway.

9943: <p>So a full site has privileges associated with more reputation points needed:</p>

<ul>
<li>Users with 15 rep can flag posts.</li>
<li>Users with 500 rep can review posts from new users.</li>
<li>Users with 2,000 rep can edit any question or answer in the system.</li>
<li>Users with 3,000 rep can cast close and open votes.</li>
<li>Users with 10,000 rep can cast delete and undelete votes on questions, and have access to a moderation dashboard.</li>
<li>Users with 15,000 rep can protect posts.</li>
<li>Users with 20,000 rep can cast delete votes on negatively voted answers. </li>
</ul>

<p><em>Now we are still at Beta, users with 4000 rep have access to all the moderation tools.</em> <strong>In fact, there are only two people at Bio with 20k rep.</strong> </p>

<blockquote>
  <p>What will happen with the poor souls like me with <strong>4k &lt; rep &lt; 20k</strong>? Will we loose
  our moderator tools?</p>
</blockquote>
 12909: <p>Yes you will lose your privileges. You now have to regain them once more. This is also why SE waits a bit so there are enough regular users who do have enough rep to continue being a community moderator. Plus you are on the cusp of getting your 10k privileges back.</p>
 6: <p>You will lose any privileges you now have if you don't meet the higher reputation requirements after graduation.</p>

<p>This is usually not a problem, as sites tend to have enough high reputation users to keep community moderation going. The only really important privilege is closing, and we have 41 users with 3k+ reputation that will still be able to close after graduation. </p>

<p>All the privileges with higher reputation barriers are nice to have, but they're not essential to community moderation. Deletion of posts is generally handled by diamond moderators on smaller sites anyway.</p>
