Yes, they were doing it in other games. It was clear; that's all I'll say. I don't know how the mods can figure that stuff out.

Well, it looks like the ban is undone.

Or the positions were picked up by other players. The simplest solution is usually the correct one.

The ingame messages shows they are banned from the game, not from the site :)

Again. If they were metagaming, they were probably doong it in multiple games. Someone in another game asked to have it investigated and the mods removed them froma all games they were in together.

Thanks to the mods for catching this. I was Turkey and really had no suspicions at all (though I did think Germany was a pushover for supporting Russia into Norway).

I'm a bit disappointed to not continue the game, though. Italy had a plan ... I'll just sum it up by saying it was crazy.

He sent me a message that included every intended move, for 3 complete years, by three separate powers. It involved me (Turkey) allowing his fleet through Constantinople and into the Black Sea, among other zany plots. I wasn't really into the game but when I read his post I was totally in awe of the effort and sheer balls of his plan. I really wanted to just see what happened.

Draug is right. Most likely happened in another game. Most meta/multi play in multiple games and only cheat in some of them.