I learned about it through you FFB. A couple of years ago I found the CBG boards and lurked for a while. The discussions were heated, with amazing information flow. You, Zipper, Iron MANiac, Hammer and others made me want to ask questions, so I joined CBG.
After CBG crashed & burned over admin-madness you emailed me to try here. All I knew of the CGC boards back then was it's owned by a grading service, and it was Bug's homebase. Whenever I peeked in I saw lots and lots of emoticons inside ever-expanding boxes. I just wasn't comfortable, but found some interesting stuff too. (five stars to Povertyrow's restoration posts! )
Then the Ewert scandal made me think 'those CGC guys' are just like the rest of us. Without balanced pro and con information flow, some level-headed smackdown debates, the odds of getting burned go WAY up for consumers. So...