I am a leader of a clan. We decided to go onto SynStick. We went to war with another faction, and due to the fact the server had recently swapped from towny to factions there was a lot of confusion. We bombed the enemy faction with TnT and creepers, and pretty much destroyed everything they had. The admins asked us to stop attacking, so we did for the night, and asked us to wait a bit to allow their faction to adapt from towny to factions because they had quite a large city. We had come onto the server on the eve of the transition, so our base and our plans were already adapted to Factions.
Basically, the next day the clan we attacked decided to attack another clan, we complained to the administrators about this and he apologized about restricting us, allowing us to continue their demise. So we chased down several of their bases, and proceeded to drive their clan from the server. In our adventures we came into conflict with another clan.
In our times on the server, we utilized methods such as creeper bombing, TnT bombing, spawn killing, which were methods that were not against the rules. We followed the rules and nothing more.
After this all happened, administrators began to smite my people on the battlefield, and we were killed because of this. The next day, three of our members were banned (Ironically three high-ranking officials in my clan, including myself) on "displeasing the community."
If you afraid HeroCraft is to meet the same fate, do not, as I do not plan to start my clan or invite my "horrible" friends onto this server, just somewhere for myself to go when I am bored.
If you wish to read their case, I would post the URL since they have a thread regarding my ban on their forums. However it seems I am unable to post links.
Hopefully that explains it enough!