yeah, I found a thread about it here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=62849
but after reading through it all I found there was never an official decision on it.
Is there any other hack which would allow moderators to have customizeable subforums (banners, images, styles, etc) and to allow them to ban users from those subforums but not the whole board itself?