Trolls in boarding school Zooms
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Anonymous
| DC is considering several boarding schools. I am attending Zoom sessions to learn about the schools that are not local. One of them has a persistent troll in the Q&A who floods it with irrelevant, sometimes inappropriate questions so that it is difficult for the staff to find questions from real parents. How is this troll able to access these sessions? We are emailed links as prospective students (and parents). Otherwise, I don’t see how the troll could even find out about them as they aren’t listed on the website. The host doesn’t seem to be able to prevent them from accessing the sessions. They are trying but somehow the troll is able to get the links anyway. |
Anonymous
| "Zoom bombing" was a thing back in the COVID days but haven't heard much about it since. I wonder whether it's some kind of student prank? |
Anonymous
| They need to cancel the zoom and start new one that only can be obtained if you are wives in |
Anonymous
| Zoom allows hosts to remove members from the meeting, and they can’t rejoin unless manually allowed by the host. They just need to go to the participant tab, select the person, and select “remove.” |
Anonymous
It’s an adult posing as a student. That’s obvious from the nature of the posts. |
Anonymous
| They would have to have a link to zoom bomb. If it's posted publicly then it's probably some random kid but if it's sent via email it's either a student or a parent. |
Anonymous
Or a school staff or board member |
Anonymous
| The meeting should have a facilitator watching the chat. This should be different from the person actively presenting. The facilitator can then control who is able to post in chat channels. They can also come up with ways to have folks pre-submit questions for screening and later answers in the meeting. |
Anonymous
Yeah this actually isn’t hard. Zoom has plenty of capabiiity to control, mute, restrict chat, or remove individuals. |