Thoughts on power up glitch?

What I don't understand is why do it except for bragging rights? You'd get, what? maybe 50 more CP out of doing it? Personally, I'm going to be fine with going to 39 until Niantic officially fixes it.

You read the term of service on a free game ???.... id love to borrow some of that free time you have!

How do u get pokes to 40 currently ?

I wouldn't mind someone exploiting this bug because Niantic is too lazy to fix it themselves. Not sure if it's worth my own dust, but I can understand players want to get their Pokemon to their maximum level.

it's against Niantic rules to use multiple devices, but u can watch prodigiesnation on youtube on using airplane mode to power up to 40 on one device.

While I don't think you'll get banned, I recommand you to don't do it. It's not worth the 50 extra CP and as Ninatic fixed the 3 finger-tap version of the bug, I don't think Niantic wants you to use it.

I am against it, not because it is against the ToS (there is nothing in there to say that 39 is the limit) but because it is clearly a glitch, so players in the know have an advantage over players who don't know. I consider this unfair. This is why I stopped at 39 despite the temptation. That being said, big part of the temptation was the old gym system where every point of cp mattered. I would consider the matter less of an issue now. On the other hand, the costs of powering up to 40 are prohibitive, it does not give you any material advantage and you won't get that nice feeling of seeing the power up button disappear. So why do it?

Niantic have a massive bug in the system and they have not bothered to fix it since day one.
It isn't like they don't know - people have claimed to report the problem for a LONG time.

However, intentionally doing 'the trick' is not the only way to achieve this.
It is entirely possible to go over your possible level while powering up, simply by encountering lag. If you press the button, then lag, and press again - when the lag spike ends it is sometimes possible to get an extra power up, beyond what you normally should be able to.

Clearly Niantic want us to get them to lvl40...they hard coded it in the game.
Clearly they can not punish everyone who has a mon with a level over their limit (bugged limit) because they may be punishing legit players who experienced lag.

The question shouldn't be..."should we do it".
The real question is, when will Niandick get around to actually fixing one of the most well know and long standing bugs in the game?