User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: June 28, 2017/@comment-24258073-20170629232848/@comment-1611013-20170630204411

Kirkburn, there's a huge difference between a chat moderator that needs to be kicked, and a chat moderator that needs to lose their powers. If we have a chat moderator who normally behaves well but is currently doing something wrong, we should have the ability to kick them from chat without having to remove their power. Don't make the decision for us. If the admins on a wiki don't want to remove someone's chat moderator powers in order to punish them, then don't force us to do that. Allowing us to kick and ban mods and admins is something that worked fine. Taking the power away from us is unbelievably stupid, especially when this wasn't an intended change and your response is just "ah, whatever."