Based on your description, those would not be considered spawn clays. In addition to the obvious on spawn clay, we also do not allow clays to be placed where there is not at least one safe exit from a spawn point.
As far as admin being power hungry, if indeed your clays were where you said they were placed, in an allowed area, perhaps the admin was just misinformed and was trying to do what they felt was right in keeping our server running smoothly and making sure people were playing fair.
Hopefully, this can be clarified and resolved without it getting personal. Obviously, you want to play by rules and our admin want to provide a well run server. Hopefully, Bulldog can share his thinking on this and we can come to an understanding.
FYI - After 3 warnings in close proximity, our bot gives a temp ban. The temp ban was for 6 minutes.
Thanks,
Jock