I expect this thread to be blocked eventually and people can move on, even those who lost money somehow need to find peace and try to recover by themselves. Though, this should not mean we are supposed to forget what happened and let the newbies around here to be ignorant of the history of this casino. Regardless whether 1xbit decides to return or not, it should still appear in our lists and threads about unreliable, shady or scam casinos, for the sake of warning people in the future
I think that locking this thread doesn't solve anything and again the posts in this thread, non is promoting 1xbit or singing their glory. The posts are even more detrimental to their reputation. So, even if people are redirected here, they will understand that the company is a scam company.
I have also noticed that is is quite difficult for moderators to lock ANN threads, I don't actually know their reasons behind that but they do not lock ANN threads easily. This might be, incase 1xbet returns with a new thread, the would be asked to continue in their formee thread.
Sure, this thread is rather detrimental to their reputation and helps to warn other gamblers but I would have guessed mods would eventually lock this thread. I was not aware of their policy on not locking ANNs. Is it a policy which only applies here within the gambling section or also occurs in other parts of this forum?
I would guess they do not want to lock threads (even if there is no official information being posted on them anymore) for the reason you mentioned, to avoid creating a new medium for scam to appear here and multiple ANNs to exist.
I also believe there was an occasion when there were two 1xbit threads coexisting here at the same time, the mods decided to block the other one and left this untouched.