Hi,
Tho it wasn't me that banned you, I heard of a 7 day ban passed for kicking friendly archers. You must understand that admins aren't omnipotent and tend to respond to either what they have reported to them (and tend to go into spectate to check it) or what they see themselves. That's why the rules have no intentional TKing for any reason - including revenge TKing as it's often the case when an admin gets there it's just a general fight going on and then both players end up getting banned
The full list of =SM= members (except 5 intentionally ommitted) are here
http://www.sneakymonkeys.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1752 Use of =SM= tags are optional; since sometimes it's useful to have obvious admin presence, sometimes it's good for players not to realise admins are online (in this case the ban was made by someone without =SM= tags)
I think the FF amount was trialed at a lower setting from 50% to 40% but it tended to increase the amount of LMBing into melee that we already get now, so was not a popular choice, hence the default FF amount
As for the name, I methink carnage was adopted after the replacement of the '50 warriors' server and pretty much represented the game at the time. If I had my way newbs would ahve to play on low ranking servers first. I did suggest we put a small minimum rank limit on the servers (like 10+) but that one got shot down, there's plenty of massive douchebags into 20-50 rank catagory.
I think carnage was always intented to live up to it's name - completely unrestricted gameplay. I know several others prefer the limited archer server as it's a little less random chaos