I believe what I said was that it would cause a f***in' revolution ;-)
boosting @`attacus_au
virtual co-working with friends this morning, we got around to talking about Jitsi's Speaker Stats feature, which shows how long each participant in a meeting has been speaking
@brainwane: "imagine what would happen if someone snuck this feature into Zoom - there would be riots!"
@brainwane, cooperations will always find a way to abuse statistics, don't give them ideas (-; BTW do you have any idea why this feature was added into Jitsi in the first place? I can't figure in which circumstance it's useful (in a non-creepy way).
@mcsinyx
Your experience here may influence what you find desirable in videocall features. How often do you facilitate group videocalls that are meant to have a specific purpose?
I don't know why Jitsi added it but, as someone who facilitates meetings, I think it's an excellent tool for a facilitator to help nudge more equity in participation. And for a participant to validate and understand their own experience.
Thank you for pointing these out, @brainwane. I was caught up by the thought of boards using this as some sort of score to force people to talk more than what they're comfortable with that I failed to see valid use cases d-;
@mcsinyx Glad to enlighten!
@mcsinyx The very first thing most of my friends think of is: notice and be able to quantitatively point out when men talk waaaaay more than 1/n of the time in an n-person meeting.
The second is: users who KNOW they are prone to dominating meetings can check it to notice and help remind themselves to quiet themselves more.
I have now been taking part in work or volunteer conference calls for at least 13 years, including videocalls for most of that time. These dynamics come up A LOT.