It happened. We even kept a list on that thread that was cited above. There were dozens.
Many of them “fell on their own grenades”, but the purges were real.
You could probably come up with dozens of names of people that felt very uncomfortable on FreeRepublic trying to support a pro-gun control, pro-abortion candidate, but I'd be interested in seeing a couple of names of people that "got the heave-ho for disagreeing".
“Many of them “fell on their own grenades”, but the purges were real.”
Death by suicide is not a purge.
The vast vast majority of those people were posting on another site and collecting props and “merit badges” for getting banned. It was mass suicide.
Many of them were given a long leash and warned, yet they still demanded to be burnt by the light of their own abusive misdeeds.