It's commercial, has a vested interest in not promoting skin to the ground barefoot, has plenty of shod and minimally shod posters that are anti-barefoot, and has a bunch of people that deliberately didn't follow the founder of that place's barefoot forum to come over here when we went public because they already had personal problems with a member or two that were here.
The forum there is a traditional running site that added a barefoot forum that is predominantly minimalist now, with some members just waiting to pounce on barefooters, while the BRS is a barefoot forum that is very friendly towards minimal shoe enthusiasts.
We are more inclusive, no fights here.
As a lifestyle barefooter I push limits and challenge "authority" (and I do mean the quotes literally), and although that's not for everyone I get no forum or personal flack here. Over there I was always being told off by someone.
There were some barefoot runners over there that were for the banning of barefoot customers from places of business and rather than debate what I had to say in that regard acted like bare feet were for SOME running only and nothing else.
I can't recall ANYONE being condemned here for running, going, or living barefoot.