User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: June 28, 2017/@comment-26601886-20170701131047

Two days ago it seemed like the back-end functionality for kicking anyone with rights was disabled, but yesterday it was changed so that now anyone can theoretically be kicked. The kick and ban options on the right rail in chat still only show up for users that have no star. However, if you use the !kick and !ban scripts, anything is possible. Besides the desired effect of admins being able to kick chat mods, admins can now kick other admins, and chat mods can kick and ban admins too.