Who is it that can ban jr. members and up? Staff and global moderators, or can a section-specific moderator ban people found reported for violations in his/her section?
With the new Jr member merit requirement a lot of newbies have more than 28 activity. Any of them with more than 28 activity cannot be nuked currently. Therefore, only Global moderators, and higher can ban them.
Crap, I figured something like that was in play. Theymos really needs to work out those trust issues and give mods more power (and hire a few more of them, too...).