Okay. Maybe misleading. I am not talking about having things private so admins can’t see what’s happening. (forget the user IP obfuscating part) This isn’t any kind of encrypted message board, BUT more for outside people.
Examples:
If I am in a hidden group, I do not want to be seen in this group (in the group listing with all the group members). Maybe here some setttings like:
- Hide members of hidden group for non-members
- Hide members of hidden group for other group members
- Hide that a hidden group exists at all
Another area would be emails and its options:
- Disallow sending any kind of email from a topic inside a hidden discussion area (so no auto-leaking because someone want’s to get notified about a reply or so)
- Allow sending, but remove anything that is sensitive
For wording: I suggest “sensitive” or “secret” or “hidden” or “shadow”.
TL;DR: If a area or group is hidden, make it really hidden.