The last thing I need is a reason to hate on and talk shit about other people for a completely made up reason
I met people treating this game too seriously. People who turned Ingress into source of interpersonal dramas. I met people from the other team, who looked at me with angry eyes when we shaked hands. And then I met others; I stood there at 3 AM in the park surrounded by a family playing for the other team. The father was telling me interesting stories while at the same time his wife and kid were kicking my butt in-game. We had a good laugh and went our separate ways. I had a lot of friendly chat exchanges with "enemy" players.
Like with all competing groups - whether political, sports, business or videogame - hating is a choice. Play by the rules, steer away from people who seek excuses to hate others, have fun and remember that both sides are playing the same game.
Upon arrival I met someone with a phone hiding in the shadows near a fence. I just stood there, countering her actions and waiting to be noticed. A kid yelled, "mom! are you coming?", to whom she replied "yes, just wait one minute". After that she noticed me standing there, so she told her kid to go and bring his dad. Moments later I was surrounded by three Ingress players and had to accept those portals are to be theirs that night.
We talked for about half an hour, exchanging stories about the city and Ingress community in it, all in completely friendly atmosphere. I haven't met them IRL again since then, but they take my portals over every now and then :).
It was only a few times and it was back when I was to low level to take down claimed portals.
I'd plan a route to open portals in surrounding towns on the intel map (after farming as many resonators as I could).
Of course I'd be farming while playing the route so I'd always have more resos than I'd planned and the next town "wasn't that far" and "I've already come all this way", etc. etc.
Forgetting that the drive home was now hella far.