Mafia? lol "Steem Flag Mafia" Kinda sounds scary, I guess.
In the end it all comes down to popularity vote and who can deploy a DDOS faster in the event things gets out of hand. Which it very well may.
And if it does, A number of folks are ready to hop on that situation to take away the threat. Certainly wouldn't expect anything less.
One of the only constants throughout human history is war, to expect anything less regardless of the medium or weapon used is silly.