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 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.
You are very correct, i have always thought the same thing and what i end up concluding is just the same thing as you have assumed. companies that don't announce that they have left the forum but are just not active anymore may one day likely decide to come back, if that happens, it may make no sense for them to start with a new Ann since they might have probably spent some money to open the old one, spent money in terms of materials which they used for the Ann design and so on, and maybe this material is no longer in their custody, paying for another materials when they previously have an Ann they would have just continued with can be not so cool.
So, i believe this is why moderators leave Ann threads open for as long as it takes. We can draw example from Bitvest, LL left the forum for so many months, and right now, he is back and continued with Bitvest Ann thread where it previously stopped.
Unless if the said site was totally down or died completely then they might consider on locking it out but that would be that so unlikely to happen on which it is true that they are really that giving some chance for those inactive ones just in case their owners would really be going back and this is the time that they would really be that posting up or on the time that they would come back. Just been said that it would really be saving them up considering that ANN threads is something that been put up some effort for it to be fancy or something like that.So this might be also one of the factors too on why they arent locking or
there might be some other possible reasons too.
As for shady platforms then its also that they arent locking it and thats why we do really see those warnings that scams of this forum arent really that moderated, not unless if those things are really that given those links or whatsoever on which it would really be that automatically deleted on that case.