"[Story] I thought my town had been taken over by Instinct gym spoofers... and then I met them."

#PokemonGO: I had noticed a trend in the last few months of every single gym in my town (and the adjacent towns) being stacked 10 deep with high level yellow players. Usually 5-6 of these would be the same players, with a few others rotating for the bottom spots, and as anyone here would assume, I figured they were spoofers. I have tried to conquer and hold the few gyms near my house, but within a week they would always end up stacked full yellow again. At this point I was ready to give up on gyms altogether, and just focus on my dex. How could I and my few other mystic friends keep up with what seemed to be an army of cheaters?Fast forward to yesterday, and I decided to stop by one of the major parks in my area to do a bit of walking and see if I could get a Larvitar before the event ends. I park my car, and begin walking to the center of the park, where the stops are most densely congregated, and I notice that some of the spots are being lured up. In fact the spots are being lured up in a line that is headed towards me, and I quickly spot the small group of people that are placing the lures. "Cool" I think to myself "someone is nice enough to lure up the park and I'm here to take advantage". When we finally get close enough, I spin the stop that just got lured, and was about to turn around and thank them for doing it, but then I noticed the name on the lure. It was the guy who was in every town gym! (literally 30+ gyms)I asked them if they were the guys who take every gym in the area, and it turns out they were! We walked for a bit, and they were very nice. According to one of them, there are a few spoofers, but they always report them when they find out about them, and they are 100% legit players.So you never know, sometimes even when it seems like a group MUST be cheating (multiple Snorlax/Blissey/Dragonite/Tyranitar, owning nearly every gym in a 30 mile radius) sometimes it turns out they're just a group of dedicated players. If you see this, KingOfConcrete, you're a cool dude, but I'm gonna take some of those gyms back. via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2qh8hFZ