LogFAQs > #980562079

The board being inaccessible wasn't a karma thing. It was a user level thing. Your user level goes to 5 when warned so you can't access most social boards (and NGG) that require user level above provisional (above 3 karma), which is user level 15 (provisionals themselves are 10-14). That's still a thing right now.
The 50 karma thing was unique to the Politics board which transferred to here before the closure. The closure made it a community board with no user level restrictions (although it's still under social boards if you favorited it for some reason)