What constitutes cheating in Counter-Strike?
In online gaming there are many offenses which may fall under the term cheating. Some offenses are only considered cheating in competitive leagues and whereas more serious offenses such as using a hacked executables or data files are almost always considered unacceptable by legitimate players. Even in organized leagues a punishment such as forfeiting a match may be seen as appropriate for breaking most league rules but being caught using a hack will often result in a ban from the league and can ruin a players reputation in the community for good. So, in online gaming there is a spectrum of what is considered cheating and a spectrum of acceptability even when cheating is recognized as such. Using hacked executables, data files or using any other external influence to alter the game are the practices most generally accepted as cheating. There are however also a number of grey areas in what is accepted as cheating, usually these grey areas involved taking advantage of bugs in the game, so
