I don't know how long Kickstarter's "hands off" approach will work, even though I understand why they don't want to get involved.

But if backers start feeling like KS is a place to take money and never deliver while KS itself turns a blind eye, they'll just slowly bleed credibility.

But what do I know. People still buy laptops on eBay, they still get scammed, eBay still refuses to do much about it. eBay still exists.