They won't if you guys won't stop spamming the total shite out of it.
Also it would help quite alot if you had some reasons they SHOULD unlock it:
And was just cool.
Now, now. Let's not point fingers here.
Everyone had fueled the fire in some sort of way.
In case it doesn't come back, Factorial made a group about it: https://powdertoy.co.uk/Groups/Page/View.html?Group=1188
I think you should probably PM a mod instead if the game thread that you are talking about doesn't deserve getting locked. Maybe making a thread asking to unlock it will cause some people to get hated on (which is not a good thing) if it was their fault.
Similar to the WST thread?
How it isn't similar:
Similar in principle, not in actuality. It was the same type of game, one where each person contributes to a story line in which disasters and other unforseen events may take place. It was essentially a copycat of WST, just with some different wiring.