Don't you know hunters can even go on a smear campaign and destroy whatever confidence that the project might've built among investors?
Are there many investors on the forum? Or in social media? Sadly, I did not know any case that bounty hunters really destroyed reputation of a project, when it refused to pay hunters their rewards. Never heard that investors after seeing numerous scam accusation posts pushed on the projects and forced them to distribute rewards, or asked project for a refund. There is even an opinion, that investors sometimes are the one who force project to scam bounty hunters with rewards or force them to cut rewards pool.