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Martijn Pieters
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This is , not a bug. Only posts with negative score can be deleted outright by trusted users; see the trusted user privilege:

Trusted users are allowed to perform trusted actions, including:

  • Voting to delete answers with score of -1 or lower

Emphasis mine; if the score of the post is 0 or higher, even trusted users only get to recommend deletion.

For example, I have 20k+ here on Meta, but for this review (post visible to 10k+ only) the post in question had a positive score when I voted to delete, so my vote was recorded as a recommendation rather than an outright deletion vote.

Martijn Pieters
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