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Comment by BurningFrog | Hacker News Reader

I'm having trouble reading between these lines.

What a few good examples of "abusive" meetings?

dick flashers for one thing, and the pattern of connections or attempted connections should be a partial indicator of this sort of abuse, perhaps there should be somesort of flag that could be set on such an account for inappropriate behaviour, or even liberally thinking there should be an adults only adult activity flag to set.

this is a hydra that shows up every time someone creates a video chat there is a problem with sausage parties and sextual blackmail that needs work arounds

> dick flashers for one thing

How are these people invited to meetings and why aren't they kicked from the meeting? How would anyone handle this in a real world meeting?

luring people to invite them as per clickbait methods, using obfusication so they are accidentally invited, straight up blackhat hacking to manipulate the system, early on the public meetings were getting bombed by flashers

these types are handled by identifying and outing them, or chasing them away, internet has to go beyond the "your ip number is" thing and demonstrate that there is a real knowledge of who they are, and that they are bothering people and it isnt going unnoticed.

Even if identifying dickflashers is their primary concern, situation can be helped by improving security, not decreasing it. Non-guessable meeting IDs, passwords, maybe unique invite links so it's possible for meeting orgs to identify who invited the flasher.

If someone sends clickbait invites to abusive meeting, then victims can trivially report it, possibly with screenshots.

They didn't specify, but I assume from context that they mean meetings conducted expressly for the purpose of aiding illegal activity.

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