You are missing here the patrollers.
Yes, it's the same as always. Currently there are 3 patrollers and 20 non-patroller local moderators. (I saw someone say elsewhere that all mods have jurisdiction over newbies, but this isn't true.) At some points in the past there have been more patrollers, but that's not necessarily indicative of a shortage.
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The patrollers can handle newbies all-over the forum, the local mods can do it only in their local boards, global mods can ban everyone despite the rank, but I guess only Theymos and Cyrus can Nuke a Legendary, in other words nuking higher ranked members.