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I feel like there are pros and cons to allowing this. A pro for this function is people can create subs for private groups and testing purposes. But this can be a con too cause it would be easier to hide a sub made specifically for brigading. But even so, a group like that can just make a private IRC anyway.

I feel like there are pros and cons to allowing this. A pro for this function is people can create subs for private groups and testing purposes. But this can be a con too cause it would be easier to hide a sub made specifically for brigading. But even so, a group like that can just make a private IRC anyway.

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I think people would just make 'private' subs that have no value to the overall Poal community. You could end up with more private subs who don't give a crap about the site itself, but just see it as their personal homepage kinda thing. In other words, contribute nothing to Poal, but get the benefits of a free meeting place for their own gang, on Poal's dime.

[–] • 2 pts

That's something I did not consider.

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Most places that allow private web space are pay sites, to the best of my knowledge. I created one years ago on a site called 'MyFamily', which has since disappeared, but allowed us to have a private family page. That was great, but we had to pay for the space. My thought, and of course, just my opinion, is that being able to make a site private would amount to the same thing, but with Poal giving away it's server space and operation costs, etc, so that a group or groups could have a free place all their own with no cost to them.