>>3726319They can make ban recommendations, which given how trigger-happy the recent moderation has shown itself would likely work with even a flimsy justification. Parts of rule 3 (don't post garbage outside of /b/) apply to /bant/ and can be invoked at will to delete low quality threads.
Either way, I think a large part of the despondent nature currently gripping /bant/, assuming it isn't all false-flagging by offboarders is due to a reduction of regular threads posted due to regulars declining and imptrash-offboard content like /pol/ posts and frog/gayposting increasing in volume to the point its more common than the local board's brand of junk threads.