"Saved" might be overstating it, but I do think Eldridge getting on Mystery, was influenced by people on here, telling/pressuring Jamie Thomas to put him on. I think there was even a small-scale campaign for it, amongst some posters.
When Thomas was on here more often, I often felt like he used Slap as like a focus-group of sorts, to see what skaters thought was cool, what direction he should take his companies in, and who he should put on.
There's more examples of this kinda thing I'm forgetting, but I felt like people like John Fitzgerald and Forrest Edwards being put on BlackBox companies, were also influenced by their association with OIAM, as well as Slap's love of Forrest.