For me, 'Team Good' and 'Team Evil' typically refer to either the players who tend to stick with one alignment or another through all or most of their characters, or it refers to the Imms often involved with projects for the benefit of one side or another (such as Scarabaeus, Patron OOC Saint of Necromancers)

However, Shokai's use of it was clearly about the IC evil/good teams. The IC teams seem to shift quite often and drastically because of the large number of waffling players who like to be on the 'winning side'. While it may get annoying, there will always be people who want to be on the winning team. We can't get around their existing even if we want to.

As for deleting with a death, I never do that, but it does get to be a pain to find yourself unable to gear decently, not just from things like a lack of equipment knowledge or a weak character, but from people coming along and killing you and taking all your new gear away before you've even finished getting everything. It's even more annoying to feel forced into sitting around begging for gear simply because your current set bites. (note: I'm not talking about uber sets or anything someone would prize all that highly, just something good enough for you to be on relatively equal standing with others your level)

And lastly, on the topic the thread started with: If full looting is really such a problem, how about letting water containers and food stay with you when you die? Or even just keep whatever container you're carrying, since you can't put limited gear in it anyway. Of course, thieves could still take things from you...

Personally, I don't see looting of any kind as a major problem, it's just one of those things you deal with.