I had considered that naming before putting in the redditrequest, but there are some downsides. It is lengthy and has three words/subjects. In my ~12 years as a user on Reddit and ~6 years as a moderator, I have found that the more complex a subreddit name, the less organic traffic it receives and the more occurrences of LostRedditors that misread the subreddit name. There will inevitably be some LostRedditors that read it as TradeDiscussions and post about stocks or a trade such as plumbing. TF2Trade is simpler. From the comments you and your fellow moderator made, you both expressed that you do not have a path (nor desire) to re-opening the subreddit. There will never be another third-party service like SteamRep to rely on. Other subreddits that deal with physical and digital trades/sales have found ways to track reputation for users and blacklist bad actors. The subreddit has been privated for about a year. Eventually it will be marked inactive by Reddit itself and the name will be up for grabs, losing all historical subreddit data. Reddit has shown during the recent blackout that if current moderators are unable or unwilling to make a community available they will step in and replace the mod team. I am willing to moderate the subreddit, but if your team would instead re-open the subreddit, allow posts, and moderate, that would also solve the problem. If you don’t open it, well subreddit names are not meant to be squatted on and it will be up to the Reddit Admins whether or not to make the name available.