I honestly doubt that your topic somehow made mods more aware of the spam and just because the posts you reported weren't deleted doesn't mean that mods were not doing their job or ignoring them. I did my share of reports in gambling board when I was active in NBA thread and majority of posts reported were deleted.

I do agree that gambling board is full of members that have no idea about topics they are talking about but that's solely on signature campaign managers and their rules that force people to write there.