iserith
Magic Wordsmith
You're crouching it in scare words, but this is literally a normal process in every aspect of your social life, and at the gaming table. There's nothing wrong with it at a basic level because that's how social contracts operate, and every table is going to have a different tolerance to it.
Sure, do what you want, but know and be honest with what you're doing is all I'm saying. My experience is that when many people really take a good, hard look at this approach and why they do it, it becomes unpalatable. It's hard to defend choosing to base one's fun and immersion on what thought crimes someone else may be committing. It's an abdication of personal responsibility as I see it.
You're creating a strawman here. There may have been one or two posters in this specific thread that haven taken the position of "No Metagaming Ever!" but your major interactions over the past 10 pages or so have been people who seem to have no problem with a moderate amount of metagaming.
The point is that the very basis for the "no 'metagaming'" or "as little 'metagaming' as possible" approach is "metagaming." Drill down to analyze the approach and that's where we end up - "metagaming" to avoid "metagaming." There are heaps of cognitive dissonance to be found here. I encourage everyone to really think this through. In my experience, this approach is usually adopted due to legacy ("this is what we've always done" or "this is how I learned the game from my cousin") and isn't rigorously tested.