I wouldn't say they care very much of their reputation here, but if they pay so many people to wear their signature and avatar as an advertising medium, and if they update regularly their thread here, it's not for nothing IMO. Bitcointalk has still a rather big weight in the cryptouniverse and is very well-indexed by Google. So I think updating your thread could be a good way to prevent them from "forgetting" your case and doing whatever they want with you.
About this case here, you better look at the facts, this game is clearly under investigation. Of course stake doesn't pay out (yet), I wouldn't as well if I was the bookie/odds provider. After the investigation is done we will have the final result, before that it's pointless to argue any further.
They should give him an ETA for that, and explain a little bit what is going on if their investigation takes several months, they shouldn't hide it to Askgamblers especially.
i disagree with you . i used to Buy ads space here in Bitcointalk multiple times before it was canceled the traffic is not much and MOSTLY returning visits also its indexed yes but the pages not in the first pages of google not at all you need to add bitcointalk to any search to be able to get it in first page .
also i used to have a pro account in similarweb and for the traffic sources for Stake Com Bitcointalk is less than 0.01% like nothing
you might ask then why most of casinos pay for signatures here if not much traffic the reason is Bitcointalk have a good DA (authority) and gaining a lot of links from here helps them get good DA to their domains but most of them stop after a while and new ones comes in .