Facts never matter when Era is mentioned. That's why any thread title that mentions them gets so many replies. The thread premise can be pointed out as false/flawed/illogical in the first 10 posts, it doesn't matter.
That might be because not everyone takes someone else's word as gospel. Even if you claim such and such is true, not everyone will agree. Additionally, some object to Nelson simply posting there, as a matter of principle, and their take owes nothing to what some obscure influencer said on social media. Yet their take is being bundled with a multitude of other anti-Era takes to facilitate some making a point. But you've made an extremely generic, extremely broad and extremely vague remark, so let's tackle it.
Part of the problem is that the forever-undefined term Cancel culture is being applied to all sorts of actions. Deciding not to watch any more videos from a Youtuber who's expressed opinions you don't agree with and calling for someone working at, say, IBM to be fired because of remarks made on their private social media, on their free time and not tied to their job, can both be labelled as instantiations of Cancel culture, regardless of how distinct they are.
Another problem, that refuses to go away, is the apparent keenness for symmetries. In the minds of some, Daoism is true, therefore for every Resetera, a perfect mirror image must exist, so that cosmic balance is maintained and the universe doesn't collapse on itself. In reality, though, what separates NeoGAF from ResetEra is not the posts themselves, not necessarily. What separates them is something more fundamental and structural, something that belies any attempt at establishing the equivalence and symmetry between the two: moderation.
Failure to spot this crucial difference is missing the point, even if adorned with the usual cosmetic rhetoric of how similar the two forums are. So I'm sorry. But posting on Era is de facto condoning that style of moderation. That means Nelson's activity there is definitely significant when done in an official capacity.
An early reply in this thread said he was banned before this whole Era thing, and if that's true this whole thread is FUD about Era taking over the gaming world.
Facts speak for themselves. The number of vetted industry professionals posting on ResetEra is orders of magnitude greater than the number around here, even if you want to dismiss the difference and claim those are silver or bronze tier professionals. There have also been a number of instances where Era seems to have steered events, like the whole ordeal with former GOG/CD Projekt RED social media account manager. Cyberpunk 2077 is shaping out to be a great case study of whether their influence is mythical or not.
There's irony in how similar both sides can be. Outrage at the other side for their outrage, saying they're better than the other side without actually doing or saying anything to prove it. It's just back and forth preaching to the respective choirs without substance.
I suppose my takeaway from this comment of yours is that you're part of that myopic group of members who can't tell the crucial difference between the two forums even when it's staring you right in the face.
As I was looking through one poster's post history to see if he had a history of racist posts, he got banned. So there's that.
Would you be claiming one poster being banned for racist posts is evidence for GAF being racist?
That would certainly be hilarious.
Hilarious indeed.