I can`t understand. It seems that they are planning bounty campaign, but the same time it looks like that they want to get someone to help with the site only. So the best way is to ask.
About the thread - you are right, it is possible to lock the thread, but it is not good for the marketing. We have a lot of questions right now. And if we will see closed thread - we will add some questions.
Since the company already has an active gambling website, I think it's reasonable to assume they have their own developers. Getting help from someone on this forum has nothing to do with their website imho. The comment that they are in talks with someone here is most likely related to this ANN thread, or maybe they are planning a bounty campaign. I guess we will have to wait and see.
business owners/teams will do everything for their site to improve and gain more players and costumers so i think all they are asking is General questions , either about bounties or improvement of their site or at least all the help they can accumulate from this section and this forum.
Meaning indeed that the team wanted progress and this is from the help of bitcointalk community.
so lets see what they can bring as the business is just starting.