User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: June 28, 2017/@comment-24258073-20170629232848/@comment-28083312-20170630222326

Of course, but at the end of the day, you still have Moderators who require supervision in order to function properly. If you want to do it that way then all the more power to you. It’s not that the ability to use kicks on mods hinders Administrators’ abilities to find good mods, it’s that the ability to use kicks makes it easier to rationalize the promotion of bad mods who are literally unreliable without Administrator supervision. A mistake is one thing, refusal or inability to stop making that mistake to the point where only forceful ejection from chat can stop the problem, is not. The problem is that people would need to kick them at all. That Admins need to moderate their moderators in order for them to do their job properly is the problem. Mods should be the ones responsible enough to moderate others, not the ones who are so irresponsible as to need moderation. I am simply explaining why it is that I personally do not take issue with this change, I’m sure that when next Fandom tries to take away another Admin tool, I, likely as not, will be on your side of the argument depending on the rationale for the removal.