He is indirectly connected with spam, because he hired the manager and he made those low payment rates, so much that seeing these avatars and signature you mostly expect to see some low quality posts.
Last time I checked those campaigns are not active anymore but I don't really care what happens with them if they are operated in similar way like before, with or without l-lord.
Note that I have many ignored members even from much higher paying campaigns, so it's not a universal rule.
Do as Skeptical Chemist did ... he just turned off the display of avatars and captions and has long merited posts based on the quality of the content
(as far as I can tell). In addition, no matter what manager is running these campaigns, it is extremely difficult to control spam in the gambling section even with all the desire,
(and judging by what I saw, the participants in the campaigns discussed here are the regulars of this section).