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Re:Deleting the golang subreddit by xg15 on Friday November 25, 2016 @11:34AM (#13037843)
Network effect. If only few people leave, each of them has to face a penalty for leaving (in this case not being able to participate in one of Go's main discussion hubs). If the whole community decides to leave (or rather move), there is no such penalty.
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Re:Deleting the golang subreddit by sangnoir on Friday November 25, 2016 @04:22PM (#13039934)
This would be selfish, coercive and has 0 chance of working in the real world: I guarantee you there will be /r/golang2 or /r/gogophers within minutes of the the original subreddit being closed.

As mentioned by someone else in the thread: the subreddit was in existence before being taken over by the golang team, it was fine before them, it will be fine after them if they choose to leave.

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