User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: June 28, 2017/@comment-24258073-20170629232848/@comment-28083312-20170630211712

You could simply talk to them, warn them verbally. Kicks are needed normally when someone refuses to listen when a Moderator warns them about the rules or when they are intentionally causing problems. If you tell your Chat Mod to calm down & stop (which really you shouldn’t need to because they should know the rules), & they keep causing problems anyway, then what’s a kick? It’s just taking the issue one step back, & doesn’t solve the problem. That problem being, that the Chat Mod doesn’t respect the you (or the rules) enough to stop when told to. That sounds like plenty of grounds for demotion, to say nothing of when a Chat Moderator is intentionally causing problems.