Okay, I understood everything up until the last part about beds. I agree with you luke, spawn camping is often exaggerated to the extreme. I too, have never had an issue leaving spawn. It has only happened once and good came out of it because I built this little summer home and it was really nice but I digress,
To me it's only camping if they are killing you repeatedly on all four roads. The term is used to loosely. Today I was accused of spawn camping by someone. The player attacked me several times after we had a Zerg fight. He kept coming back and punching me to break my chain armor. Then, the first time he ran past me, I killed him. After that he went on a huge tirade about me spawn camping. This is ridiculous, and I agree with draykhar this rule needs to be more clearly defined.
I also think players use this For malicious intent. They will do the aforementioned, and then /modreq you anyway because it looks like you're spawn camping in the logs, as there is no way to verify wether they got to a chest, punched you, etc.
The real camping issue is base camping.