Are you suggesting that "younger folks" just start trying to intervene in every public display of affection they see at a meetup? If I hug my wife the last thi

Are you suggesting that "younger folks" just start trying to intervene in every public display of affection they see at a meetup? If I hug my wife the last thing I need is some white knight running up and calling me names because they have some imagining of what is going on. Honestly that advice on the face of it is terrible. We should discourage this behaviour but it should be through having rules for meetups, a complaints/reporting facility, and banning the offenders (or giving them warnings in less egregious examples). Recommending people get into a confrontation if they get a bad vibe is just bad advice that will result in bad situations (see dongle-gate, et al).