Trying to help my town public meetings avoid random internet jerks joining the Zoom and spamming racist stuff.
How do these kids usually find public Zoom meetings to harass?
Trying random IDs?
Searching/scraping the web for Zoom links?
What do other places do with public Zoom meetings to minimize this?
@marcoarment wondered this myself. We tried to mitigate it a little for iOS Dev Happy Hour by making people register in order to get the link. Only helps a little.
The strangest interaction ever was when one of the jerks who had been screaming and making random noises avoided getting kicked out (we can have well over 100 people so it can be hard to spot them if they only make the noise for a second). He ended up listening to one of our speakers, and apologized because he enjoyed the talk. 😵💫😵💫
Marco Arment
Chris Wu 🪐
Kyle Hughes