Do you have some source of information that the site's owner and/or moderators are banning people based on directions from "Fred supporters"?
That's a pretty serious charge to make on FR.
The procedure is simple enough, and was used to great effect against Rudy supporters, who frankly were easier targets.
Most people react strongly when they are attacked. So if you can goad them with personal attacks, and do so repeatedly, you can get them to lash out, and if they do so with a personal attack, they can be banned.
It’s like how Draco Malfoy gets Harry Potter in trouble all the time.
However, in this case I was being sarcastic, making a little joke. I imagine EV knows that, as EV hasn’t really been missing or anything, just I haven’t hung around in the same threads for a few days.
For the record, I’d rather not see anybody banned, but have no opinion on the matter of those being banned as that is between the owner of the site and the people being banned. I’ve been led to ask for leniency for one or two people in the past, but haven’t done so recently.