admit and pin

[mielhighhokie]

All lot of my meetings use waiting rooms to keep out Zoom bombers. A nice feature would be to "admit and pin". Today, I can "Admit", but then need to scramble to find the person to "Add pin". Tonight, we had a bomber and luckily I had pinned him when he entered (because it was not a name I had seen before). If I had not pinned him, it may have taken a moment to finally remove the pervert. If "Admit and Pin" was an option, it would be a whole lot less stressful

[storyhub]

Zoom has created an authentication feature primarily to better control who can join a meeting. The authentication feature requires each participant to have a Zoom account and they must sign in to that account to be verified. Generally, this will keep out the bombers. Having to remove someone takes time and during that time they may be able to interrupt the meeting. Authentication at least requires them to be registered with Zoom with an email address that they had to prove ownership and that email address is a key part of the authentication process.

[mielhighhokie]

Yep, authentication is great.  But it does not prevent bombers. 

My meetings are for a 12 step program and typically have publicly posted IDs and passwords so that it encourages anyone to join the meetings.   I need an Admit and Pin feature so I can quickly remove them.

[storyhub]

Your issue is mainly because you publicly  posted the IDs and passcodes. Take a look at https://on.zoom.us/ which allows public registration without publicly publishing those numbers which can be easily scraped by bots.

[mielhighhokie · Accepted solution]

I agree 100% that the problem is the publicly posted IDs and passcodes, but that is how these meetings have been set up.  Even if I had the power to change the way of the public registration, it does not change the fact that I want to admit someone and pin them in the same action.  

Thank you for the suggestions, but I do not see your suggestions as a solution.

[storyhub]

Since Zoom was not designed to be used as a public forum or public meeting you may want to consider a different approach, such as screening participants in the waiting room via chat before admitting them. You can also use host tools to prevent participants from unmuting or starting video until the host permits from a hand raise or host asks participant to unmute or start video, which you can instantly mute if their behavior is unacceptable and they can not unmute once host mutes them. At any time during the meeting these restrictions can be lifted. This is a tighter control than allowing bombers immediate access to unmute after being admitted. Pinning does not control their ability to interrupt, but host tools do control that ability.

[mielhighhokie]

thank you Storyhub for trying to help me through this issue, but the meeting link must remain public.  as someone who attends many of the meetings as security, I use the Pin feature to stop potential intruders from bouncing around my screen.  "potential intruders" are anyone I do not recognize.  But first I have to Admit them and scroll through dozens of names to get to whomever I just let in.  It is a pain in the butt to do this.  Again, thank you for your interest in this, but I cannot select any of your answers as the correct one.

[storyhub]

Well, the choice is yours, but you have been offered solutions that do work and are recommended by Zoom. Good luck.