African American

Which is sort of strange considering the whole purpose is for these groups to be cordoned off from the rest of DU.

If the members of "protected groups," "safe spaces," whatever we want to call them, want to be able to have open, candid discussions on the topic of their choice without fear of hides, opposing viewpoints, etc., that is an awesome thing, and they should be able to do so.

But many of these members also want their threads to be able to show on the main pages, such as the Greatest, and that is where the problem lies, IMHO.

The Greatest Page does not make it obvious enough that a thread is in a protected group, and so the many members who basically live on the Greatest page see the thread and immediately go into it reply, alert, etc., not realizing there are different rules at play.

I've said it before; I think "protected groups" threads need to be in their own section so they can't rise to the Latest/Greatest (if protected groups want to be separate I don't see why they would oppose this), or the Admins need to draw our eyes much more to the Group in which each thread is located.