Are you asking me in particular?  Because I don't recall anything from the old post you referenced, and aside from lightlord paying people at his leisure and to the inconvenience of the recipients, I don't follow the tons of gambling scams/drama/what-have-you and can't really give an informed comment unless I delved into that stuff--and I'm not going to, because that's best left to DT members who understand gambling and casinos better than I do.

Regarding members defending whatever service they promote in their signature space....unless they are actually hardcore supporters of that service, I think that's a bad way to view a sig campaign.  You're renting out your profile space and that's it, not endorsing the service any further than that (that's how I see it, anyway, except for Foxpup's Merit Cycling Club which I will have engraved on my tombstone).