[QUOTE=iamweaver]The reason why coming up with some common definition is useful, Ekental, is because effective communication requires that we understand each other. If I read in someone's post "This is a cheese encounter", I am just trying to figure out what it means; in general the definition seemed to be as I first posted. Your post seems to be using a common mistake, confusing the denotation of a word with its connotation. Most of us do this at some point or another...
I only care because I plan to fully run through SoA/ToB only one time, so I wanted to play the game "straight" and was hoping that cheese meant what I posted, so that I can avoid those things, is all...[/QUOTE]
First, don't you think that the posts are starting to get the denotation and connotation mixed up?
Second, since everyone has a different definition of cheese, isn't it unreasonable to assume that you can get everyone to agree? Since "cheese" and "tactics" seem to get blurred together so often, it doesn't seem feasable that "cheese" can be something that is exactly defined and communicated except in the most general of terms. As long as you avoid what YOU think is cheese, why should it matter what everyone else thinks?