User blog:Floatingaxehead/And so it has come to this.

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For context, this refers to that still barely breathing game, pokemon go, which yes, people in large numbers are still playing. I am one of them. Go instinct.

So, a while back, there was a certain Valor individual who spoofed a lot of Rancho Cordova in California's central valley. Such an individual found one of my relatives on facebook and using a variety of socks attempted (and failed) to harass him (my uncle knows better...), and this eventually led to a campaign of both mystic, instinct, AND valor players reporting en masse this lone player for excessively spoofing, of which my relative was at the helm. This led to my relative's pokemon go gyms being harrassed and often hunted down until Niantic found a certain [won't mention trainer name] block worthy, and down came the banhammer on the gps spoofer.

But he has come back.

Apparently, this dude knows how to get under a person's skin (or through their fb account) and was able to access information about my relative (job title, activities, family, etc.) and proceeded to launch a campaign to defame him under a false facebook name (I know, very reasonable, right?), posting some very derogatory stuff about my relative saying some nasty stuff about his "wife" (which was another sockpuppet account) within a poorly-moderated pokemon go facebook group, publicly accusing him of being unqualified for his position and acting as professional as a "janitor" (mildly offensive to janitors, I guess). People who have gymmed with him/hunted with my relative (including some very high-level players on other teams) attempted to talk to this individual, thinking he wasnt a sockpuppet, and this individual even proceeded to place gym locations (around 16 of them, though its no biggie since my uncle would still collect from the max amount even if they dropped several more) and claimed that around a certain time period tomorrow he and a crew of other players will be going after him, leaving every lvl 10 stronghold gym gray (unclaimed, intnded to be an insult, unless you don't take it as one). My relative (also being one of the highest-level legit players in the state of California) already has a hate-club of spoofers, being very vocal about how much they ruin the game.

And so I'm looking forward this mother's day to wait and see how many mons are returned to my relative, and to see just how many people start calling out the dude who posted the derogatory stuff about my relative on facebook. If this isn't cyberbullying, I don't know what is.

And thus, the once highly popular game has boiled down to this. A bunch of grown men on a personal vendetta going after some dude just because he organized the individuals who wanted to get one guy banned. Now, who wants to play Pokemon Go?