my point is why did no one in the mod/admin team as it appears contact jb to give an answer but just let it ride
The answer to that one is that it's not always recorded that a mod / admin has acted on an alert, depending on how any moderation was applied, yet the same alert goes to all of us, so it's commonplace for us to see an alert, and yet see nothing wrong in the thread because it's either already been moderated or no action is truly required. We wouldn't therefore have known that the thread in its' current state was viewed as problematic by jb.
My opinion, and only that, is that jb should have appreciated that banning another mod is an action not to be taken without discussion with the rest of the team, and that, given his relationship with Ljay, he was at risk of not taking an impartial view of the situation. Both reasons to defer to another member of the team, IMHO.