Reply To: Please Change my Mind and Point of View

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For my part, I wasn’t really involved in the voice chat early on and I didn’t hear everything.  But the same thing happened again later on and think that there was definitely something I could have done, but perhaps wasn’t confident enough to do so (it being my first time in the chat).  I could tell Oriskaney was having connection issues, his audio stream was breaking up and it was hard to hear what he was saying.  As a result people were talking over him.  What could I have done? Well I run virtual meetings at work, recognising that there was clearly some tech issue occurring I could have spoken up, asked people to stay quiet for a few moments to try and allow Oriskaney to get his point across and/or let him know that we were really struggling to what he was saying. I would like to think that, given a bit more time to become a “regular” I could do so, but I was hesistant to make that call on Wednesday. That’s on me and a lack of confidence, I will try and improve that in the future.

Something that we do at work in our meetings is that each meeting has what we call a “bystander”.  Their job is to try and ensure discussion don’t get heated, everyone gets a chance to speak and that we stick to an agenda without going off on tangents.  I think perhaps the Discord chat needs something similar