Well, I don't think it's problem at all. If website doesn't works anymore, their topic quickly becomes inactive and it soon goes to 5th or 10th page in that board. I don't think there is big need to lock these inactive topic because usually nobody posts in it. Only sometimes we can see some spammers who bump inactive topics or it's done by bots.
In perfect situation, authors of topic should lock it when they don't provide services anymore. But if they don't provide service anymore, usually it means that something went wrong with their business and locking ANN topic isn't their main concern. Other scenario that they done exit scam, well, in such case I also doubt that they are going back to lock topic
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