This is what occurred to me upon hitting my first private subreddit screen; if I was an aspiring mod, now would be a good opportunity to found a new subreddit,

This is what occurred to me upon hitting my first private subreddit screen; if I was an aspiring mod, now would be a good opportunity to found a new subreddit, though I have no idea how you'd draw traffic/attention to it. The other ploy would be to see about getting the admins to turn an existing sub over to you; I suppose they could say it's been abandoned or something to that effect.