Never give admins kick power

Servers with poor administration eventually die out due to competition from better managed alternatives.

Privately owned and operated community servers, as seen in games like Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 have consistently delivered better player experiences. These servers allowed for custom rules, active moderation, and stronger community engagement which contributed to their long term popularity and player retention.

Hi OpaoGuoNai,

I fully expect Portal to give the creator of the experience admin rights, but official matches through the matchmaker won't have player admins. 

Servers with poor administration eventually die out due to competition from better managed alternatives.

Exactly this. 

Yes there are 'badmins' and it would be good if you could report server admins if they abuse their power on ranked (XP) servers (and black marks against servers could be viewed in a server browser), but part of the attraction of private servers is that you can kick/ban players that the anti-cheat doesn't catch or that habitually spew abuse in chat, or whatever.

At some point EA will stop caring about toxicity and cheaters (when a new BF version becomes less profitable and it's not worth the cost of policing it) and only the private admin servers will be able to provide a decent game.

It happens every version.

Exactly this, and. the ability to assign other people rights to at minium the Portal server that one sets up in order to help maintain consistency across matches/times when the main host can't be online is very important as well. Plus the ability to have a rcon console to keep track of chat and be able to kick/ban if needed even if the game isn't loaded.