That's how you can very well get on the actions of scammers and lose your money, thinking that you are investing in your quality and profitable business. All projects must be reliable, but only how to test them and how to trust them? Is there a real protection of the user from deception if he wants to earn and save his bitcoin.
There is none. It's blind faith and nothing else. You're trusting strangers on the Internet. If the developer runs away, all you can do is sigh. You can't chase him at all unless you're willing to hire someone to dox him and then you're willing to go to his country.
There are "personalities" online like Vinny Lingham and Roger Ver. People seem to trust their opinion but I really do think that they are just spreading FUD. What reason did those people have to trust those people? None at all. They just think that they are trust worthy. Those people didn't even do anything to them personally. If these personalities do something wrong or predicted wrong, people can't blame them or tell that they have been scammed.
Similar to those are these new coins. Only blind faith is there.