AA / 12 Step Meetings: Make your voices heard! We need Zoom to allow us to disable RAISING HANDS!!

[TubeGuy]

How many AA meeting Zoom accounts have been affected by bombers, making removing them difficult by toggling the RAISE HAND feature?  

Yes, we have a great security team, and we know how to use the participants list to type in the name and then eject the bomber, but some meetings don't have that because they are newer or smaller.  People are dying out there, trying to stop drinking, and the bombers are so prolific and scaring people off.  

I've seen other meetings using screening questions to keep bombers out, but keep these desperate newcomers out, too.  

Zoom is adding so many complex features, yet we cannot get them to listen to us to add something that to me, is quite simple.  

How do we get this to somebody who will listen?  

[LordZoomington]

I agree. Bombers repeatedly raising/unraising their hands in rapid succession makes it really tough to kick them out. If we could eliminate this option to raise hands the meetings would become a whole lot more welcoming. 

[MBTaggart]

I agree with the above posts. To make it worse, bombers play whack-a-mole and it’s that much harder to isolate and remove them. It would really be helpful to be able to turn off the Raise Hand option. Our meetings are a matter of life and death for some struggling alcoholics. Please help us keep these little jerks out. As it stands now, 14-year-olds are beating Zoom. 

[Gary_G87]

Yes, please, we need this.  Ordinarily, raising hands helps us queue up people who wish to speak and keep the meeting organized, BUT when disruptors ("bombers") rapidly raise and lower hands using the convenient key combination, they become VERY hard to remove.   They enter the meeting using a plausible name, so they are admitted from the waiting room because we want to help anyone who wants help even if we have not met them before.  Then at some point they begin displaying a obscene video with loud sound and jumping around using the raise hand feature.  When that persists for more than a few seconds, it is extremely disturbing to some of our more emotionally vulnerable attendees.  I agree with the above comments: "Please help us keep these little jerks out. As it stands now, 14-year-olds are beating Zoom. "

[Laini]

I host meetings for an organization and we are constantly bombarded by people trying to disrupt the meetings. The biggest issue now is they use the Ctrl command to keep raising and lowering hand repeatedly so they move around and we cannot click on them to remove them from the meetings. Even if we suspend participant activities they can still do this and it creates a visual movement that makes it next to impossible to continue with our meetings. Please consider giving us an option to stop participants from raising hands.

[Upland_AA]

Here  is the issue: It needs to get around.  Take the link to this thread to other meetings and ask them to demand change.  

[Laini]

There is a simple solution to this problem that we found. Use the search bar in the participants window to search for the name of the intruder raising and lowering hand. Then they are the only one who shows up and you can easily remove them. 

[Laini]

If you search the participants window with the search bar there for your intruder they will be the only one showing and will be still so you can remove them.

[MBTaggart]

I don’t even know who is responsible in the Zoom organization. Whoever it is should do an AMA.