If the monitors are not there to actually help and organize the group situation itself, it can indeed go very bad. I have met up with people like that but more informally and we have had a good self regulation. I think we dared self regulate just because it was informal. If it is a formal setting I think there are bigger dangers to these things happening, no monitors being active. It will still be monitored enough to inhibit people from taking back their power, but not monitored enough for a person who wants to influence others to take over.

Some people do indeed try to tie people to themselves to gain power. There is something serious to this, because, to be a bit sexist, this is violence. This is the female counterpart to male physical violence.