The drawback is that subtle power relationships still exist beneath the seemingly egalitarian surface. People who are more popular or joined the group earliest, for example, may have more influence over the direction of the movement, yet these de facto power holders are unaccountable for their policy decisions because they don't have any official title. This fuzziness of authority and responsibility has sometimes led to internal conflict.
缺點則是看似平等的表象下，仍存在隱性的權力關係，例如人緣好或較早參與的成員，就可能對運動方向擁有較大的影響力，但這些實際掌權者卻又因「沒有頭銜」而不必為決策負責，這種「權責不明」的矛盾，有時就會演變成組織的內部衝突。