The old forum cost less for a year to operate than a meal and an evening out for the BOG, did it not? Additionally, perhaps run it again and this time add in the Bills/MLSE experiment along with specifics of some of the upcoming rule changes. Would like to see it’s AI mind wrap itself around that! Anyway, smelling some BS results from Chat bot.
you are welcome to run it on your own at any time. There is a case to be made of bias on my part for sure. There are endless scenarios that could be made and the one I did was a discussion point. My stance is that the CFL is cheap and the fact that Toronto wants to be lazy/cheap and piggy back on the Bills won’t change that opinion. The rule changes are the CFL’s way of taking short cuts instead of spending money to get people interested in Canadian Rules. This has been the way since the beginning and now they are reaping what they have sowed.
I think that your comments here are right on point (league is cheap and essentially lacks imagination). As for bias, everyone of us would likely generate a different output. Good base for discussion in any event.
For sure. There’s rarely one “truth”. If 20 people see the same thing happen, you often get 20 different versions of the same event
My personal opinion is that the CFL didn’t get out of the message board business because of cost.
Perhaps because they lost control of the message? Suspect that had we all jumped full in on supporting the changing of the guard that there would still be a forum. There are secondary issues as well i suspect.
I suspect it’s because sports leagues don’t need to run their own social media boards, there’s various other outlets for that to happen with less than zero liability.
The demographic prefers message boards but they’re less and less common.
I know for certain (see Reddit) there were complaints about the CFL allowing a forum where the Lounge had political talk, which probably should have never been allowed on a league funded and operated site. (Imagine NFL.com having a message board with talk about the current US political climate??).
At the end of the day they probably looked at it as “why bother?” - a message board that they own, pay for but is completely run by volunteers with no affiliation to the league whatsoever, in a world where there’s countless other ways for people to talk football is not on the top list of things a league that specializes in doing the bare minimum should be doing.
I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did in all honesty.
Suppose one could debate the merits of having a member lounge that is hidden from the public all day. The league doesn’t exist in a bubble and it is influenced well beyond the field. People like to vent and it’s handy to be able to do that with one stop shopping 
There’s a reason the NFL dialed back the political narrative. It’s bad for business.
Fans have ample outlets to express their opinions, leagues don’t have to provide one and most aren’t.
Thanks for all the pics Ted!
Clearly we should but my question to him is should changes be made at the expense of every other minority in the land?
Does he want other minorities treated the same as the black race was in order to make up for what happened with them? Does he believe in equality or not?