How to Moderate Video Room Participants by Muting or Kicking (During Live Polls)

A shopper removed from a video room must stop receiving its media and must not keep counting as present in the live poll. A muted shopper may still watch and vote. That distinction changes the moderation decision: mute a disruptive audio source; remove a participant whose continued access or presence is the problem. Screen sharing makes the distinction urgent because silencing a microphone does nothing to revoke access to the shared screen. Short answer: model mute as a permission change on a specific publishing track, and removal as revocation of room membership plus media delivery and poll eligibility. Neither a button click nor a WebRTC track event alone proves that all three effects happened. Observe each effect separately. What changes when the poll and screen share are live? Picture a live shopping session: a host shares a product comparison, viewers vote in a poll, and a participant starts talking over the host. Before moderation, that participant can publish audio,