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Oh, yeah. The subs that claim they never ban are the ones with the biggest ban hammers.
There used to be some really icky subreddit dedicated to... basically being a bunghole. "Public Health Watch", I think. It was anti-LGBTQ+, anti-women, anti-just about everything. Everything was a threat to these poor little pseudo-incels (they couldn't even be incels right). I forget how I stumbled on it, but one day one of them posted a link to a study that "proved" something about women and their sexuality and how it damaged men and I don't remember clearly, but their conclusion was so stupid. So I read the damn study and it explicitly said the exact opposite of what they said. I replied with whole paragraphs from the study showing that the study said disagreed with what that post claimed. I was banned within minutes.
On the one hand, I kinda get it: I regularly deal with pseudoscientists who cherry pick through studies to find one or two sentences that agrees with them, instead of what the study actually says, and claim I'm "interpreting" the study wrong. On the other hand, when you're the cherry-picker, you don't get to be angry when someone else reads the rest of the words and finds out you're the dimwit.