User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: July 5, 2017/@comment-24258073-20170706095652/@comment-24258073-20170706220555

I strongly disagree because it goes against the traditions of administrators being trusted to have more control over chat than all the other chat moderator groups aside from staff. I know some traditions are meant to be broken, but I strongly disagree that this should be one of them. Also I strongly oppose chat moderators being allowed to unban themselves. Being able to unban one's self was and always should be restricted to administrators and staff only.

If a vstf or helper ever needed to unban themselves in the past to do their job, then they always had the option to temporarily flag themselves as an admin, and then remove the flag once they'd done what they needed to do. Checking the logs, I've seen vstf temporarily flag themselves as an admin if they ever needed to do something that they couldn't do as a vstf alone.