I wouldn’t worry about it. If I see a gym that has been occupied for 8minutes, I will try to beat it before the 10 minute mark. No way I’m gonna stand there for 8hr22min.
***However, there is guy from another team that takes a lot of the gyms at a very popular EX gym (he lives across the street, I live 3 miles from it). I see him grinding once a week, but never talked to him since we are often battling for overnight control. We are both 1.4mil from 40, he is not really on discord and he doesn’t mass raid but we did two Lugias there today...he caught a 2051 shiny. His pokegenie told him a range of 77.8 to 97.8...but it didn’t give the possible level range (20; 20.5; 21). I spent up to 5 minutes explaining to him it is a 98%. Not a knock on him not knowing that, but can read/write/raid chat a lot and/or you can play more (plus live across the street from one of the best EX parks in the state/country)