What's the verdict? Is it to prevent possible connections on the campaign manager accounts? I don't know. But this is still sketchy.
It's quite likely that they're still using Dontme as campaign manager, just under a new alt now, in my opinion. It's highly unlikely that the handover to any new campaign would be this smooth and unannounced, and happen within such a short period of time.
The owner of the site may well be informed of these series of events and continued to put their trust into Dontme, despite the allegations, since they wouldn't be negatively affected.
CryptoMania should be able to answer it (or maybe theymos with the IP log data). But it seems like DontMe has managed their ANN thread, and possibly their communications on this forum. I guess they trusted DontMe.
What bugs me the most is that there's even no warning that they would be changing "managers"/"accounts" in the old thread. This is the last
post in the old thread before it was locked. Definitely not a warning message. Just out of the blue. Contacting the site would be ideal.
Contacting the site wouldn't yield anything probably since they would probably have vested interest not to tell the truth.
Anyhow, I don't really see a problem with participating in the campaign itself (if you are willing to take on the risk of non-payment), or any wrongdoing on the website's behalf per se. It's solely the reputation of Dontme that is at stake here.