Banning a person for dropping some totems would be ridiculous. Unless of course there is more to the story and they were following someone and dropping those totems on them all over again. I was actually one of the people who picked up those unwanted totems when going through one of the portals in TNT. Was I annoyed? Sure I was 
We were just going hunting and I needed an empty inventory. Would I want that person to be banned? Absolutely not. It took me 20 seconds to get rid of those totems at some isolated place. And as I said, it is not like they were following and harassing me, it was just one time thing, no big deal.
A few days ago one person asked a bunch of unaware players to go through their portal. We all fell down into lava and died. Was I angry about it? Of course not. I doubt anyone was and I hope no one even thought of reporting that. It was just a prank. And I would like to point out that getting rid of the death penalty takes you more time and effort than emptying your inventory.
I am not going to take sides since I do not know the real reason for the ban. I just really hope all players are treated equally in this game, no matter if they established a popular guild or not.
