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When do you make the call? That's easy: when it needs to be made. How does one "make the call" is a different and more complicated matter, but personally, I make the call based on maintaining my own personal safety, and I think every cyclist in every group has the fundamental responsibilty to do the same. Sometimes it's safer for me to stop so I don't nailed by a car, sometimes it's safer to continue so I don't get piled into by a speeding grupetto.
It's virtually never safer to blindly follow some bunch of randos without any situational awareness, so I never do that.