Several communities worked together, such as the tech blogosphere, Reddit, and other social media. Although HN may be the birthplace of the idea to boycott Godaddy, its hardly just HN being responsible.
I'm relatively sure the idea started on reddit too.[1][2]
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[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3381822
[2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supp...
Several communities worked together, such as the tech blogosphere, Reddit, and other social media. Although HN may be the birthplace of the idea to boycott Godaddy, its hardly just HN being responsible.