You have asked a question about lottery's experience with gamblers in that thread. There are 88 replies to your post ( 5 pages in total), so did you not get the answer and viewpoints from the gamblers in those replies? Why do you want to keep the thread open as people will again post more or less the same thing again and again in that thread.
Ideally, you should have locked the thread yourself but since you did not lock it yourself, moderators performed their job and lock the thread to prevent the spam.