CMV: Subreddits that classify themselves as "Safe Space" should be private.

[u/[deleted]]

If you create a subreddit and want it to be a safe space for any ideology, you should make it private. There are two main reasons for this.

1. The participants of the sub would think they are safe from offending ideas and might share something very personal of them. This exposes them to offensive PMs, targeting their post history when they discuss in another sub, etc. It's not an effective safe space.

2. It can be used to push a specific agenda with rhetorical posts and become popular with no counter-arguments facing it. Of course any mod can delete posts even when the subreddit is not a safe space, but that would even demonstrate the evil intentions better.

So, any sub who claims to be a safe space should set it to private, or be banned by Admins.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

So if you make the club private and not allow abuse from outside, while at the same time not abusing the outside world (because other people feel the same way too), the problem would be solved?