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I would like to know more about your statement "50,000 users would surely count as a critical mass". How many users does Craigslist have in total?
I especially think it's unlikely that Craigslist would be motivated by the opinions of 50,000 Facebook users, especially if you had not actually conducted a poll but merely collected the answers of those that agree with you.
You should contact Craigslist and ask them what criteria would actually convince them that Craigslist users want for-charity ads.
This was my first thought too. Taking the question further -- even if, by some reliable polling method, you could draw a Venn diagram of CL and facebook users, wouldn't there be a lot of selection bias? If, say, 40% of CL users are also on facebook, by definition they're probably a lot more tolerant of ads than the other 60%.