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I can't speak to all videoconferencing software, but Zoom does this to throw up a "Hey nobody can hear you, did you mean to unmute?" banner

• metadat 5y ago
  What about those cases where you wish you'd been muted? "Hey everyone can hear you, did you want me to erase the last 5 seconds from their memory?" would be a nice feature. Facepalm.
  • AdmiralAsshat 5y ago
    There's a Zoom setting to Mute Attendees Upon Entry. I make that my default for every meeting. Some people complain, but I've had way too many people join and not realize their mic is live, so the meeting is interrupted by random dude shouting at his children to stop making noise, etc. Or even better, when the meeting tool has a "Call me at this number" tool, but does not require validation before bridging the audio. So instead the CEO's All-Hands PowerPoint presentation is interrupted by that one guy who tried to have Zoom/WebEx/GoToMeeting call his cellphone, but the call goes to his voicemail instead and the voicemail audio plays over the (recorded) conference. Fun times. I've seen it happen multiple times.
    • shultays 5y ago
      Huh, isn't this the default behavior? I never set that and all meetings I attended mutes me by default
      • NathanielK 5y ago
        Business users might get different defaults from their admin.