Camp Stealing

[Zinx]

Hey everyone. I was wondering about a rule in P99 and I didn't see a thread on it. I'm a pretty new player. I've been playing for about a month now actively.

I was in Upper Guk today at the Ancient Crocodile camp. I died fighting the crocs and I ran back to my corpse to find other people already at my camp. It wasn't any more than 5 minutes that I was gone. Because I died to the mobs, 2 of the 3 were still up. When I got back, the people there said that they would give me the camp back, however, they were very rude about it and stated that they were doing me a favor and when you die, you lose your camp. I'm wondering if this is true. In this game, if you die and you are on a corpse run which doesn't take you more than 10 minutes and your corpse is obviously at the camp and you are on-line making your run back to your corpse...is another group ok to move into your camp? They stated that I didn't keep an active presence at the camp, so the camp was no longer mine.

Just looking for clarification. Thank you.

The rule they referenced to me is this one:
In general, a player should maintain a presence at or very near the spawn of the camp they are intending to hold, while keeping the placeholders of any relevant spawns dead. It is allowed to 'camp' multiple areas if there are no other players interested in doing so, however if another party is interested in moving into one of your camps, you must chose which one to keep and maintain your presence there.