That the "experiment" involving the kick feature is a sham? HoH raid today, we were stuck on cerberous in a PUG group. Of course, controllers were not stunning the handlers. Sure enough, the kick vote shown up, passed, a new controller was invited, and the fight was finished. We were all under the impression the kick option was removed, yet I seen it play as day in action not even an hour ago.
https://forums.station.sony.com/dcuo/index.php?threads/server-hotfix-march-12-2015.239930/ I believe that is dated for today. I am also quite sure those hotfixes are applied @ the beginning of the day during server restart. Furthermore, since you can already que all PvP maps right now (im looking at it as we speak), one part of the aforementioned hotfix is already in the game, and no other notice was given that the kick feature would NOT be in this hotfix. Therefore, it should be disabled a they said it would be.... yet with what I seen an hour ago, clearly that is not the case.
What about the type command /kick "player name" work?... instead of the d-pad option. Not near my ps4 so Just a guess on my part if that was overlooked.