I've voted, but for sake of clear feedback- I just made my first donation ($100) to MIRI, directly as a result of both this thread and the donation-matching. This thread alone would not have been enough, but I would not have found out about the donation-matching without this thread. I had no negative feelings from having this thread in my recent posts list.

Consider this a positive pattern reinforced :)

Yep, this is a deal-breaker for me, too.

Also, the Stellar folks should seriously consider the risk that much of their userbase can be instantly and permanently removed if Facebook is compelled to remove it by political or legal pressure — or decides they just don't want to be in thu business of providing authentication for currency schemes. (The same applies to tying to any other proprietary platform, of course; and Facebook may be less whimsical in this regard than, say, Apple.)

Thanks for replying. It sounds like you went to the trouble of signing up and were then disappointed to find this out. Sorry about that. Note that the post currently says (and has said since I first submitted it, I think; certainly I haven't yet edited it since seeing your comment):

To get back the 1000 STR, you will need to allow Stellar to interact with your Facebook account, but you can then remove the Stellar app like any other in your Facebook settings after you get back the 1000 STR.

What should I conclude from that, and your comment? Do I need to make it clearer? Might other people overlook that, or do you think it was rare that you overlooked it (assuming you did)?

I do not know enough about them to be able to give you good answers.

But the policy question of whether to bother collecting or donating any free Stellar seems obvious to me; this opportunity is monetarily zero risk and takes minimal time. Even if one has lots of reasons to avoid jumping into actively managing a portfolio of cryptocurrencies, this policy decision is extremely one-sided, which is why I'm posting it.

Someone who puts zero probability on 'cashing out' the Stellar in future for themself should still donate because there is a reasonable probability that MIRI will be able to make use of them. (In fact, such a person should just donate all their Stellar, but I'm not sure how many people really would be that confident that they wouldn't cash out themself.)

A depressing number of people on Facebook, where I've seen the MIRI FB post link Shared, have posted in the comments ranting their two cents about cryptocurrencies and why cryptocurrency sucks and Ripple sucks and Stellar is doomed and bla bla bla. All these complaints share the property of being irrelevant to the policy decision of whether to actually follow up on this specific opportunity.

I'm not saying this is necessarily what you're doing, but if you are, cut it out, and if not, be aware of how it comes across, and that regardless of intention, it can derail and discourage others from bothering. I'm not trying to be hostile, but I am upset, because it seems like a predictable consequence of your comment (regardless of intent) is that people hastily pattern-match this post to 'Haha cryptocurrencies haha pyramid scheme' and close the tab feeling cynically good about themself rather than just doing the damn thing. So long as your comment is at the top of this thread and reads as it does, I think it is doing more harm than good, though hopefully this comment will serve to mitigate that effect.

CRYPTOCURRENCIES ARE HARD MODE

Do you think this is also true of normal fiat money like dollars? If lots of people come to value Stellars then they will have legitimate value.

It was unable to do so when I tried. How motivated should I be to give this any more of my attention?

I haven't heard of anybody else having this problem in this case (but also not of anybody else explicitly doing this part).

The only thing I can immediately think of is that you might have some general setting to do with Apps disabled. If you don't have any Apps on your account, then there's a good chance this is the problem, and I think you should be motivated to try temporarily turning on Platform by turning on Apps on the first setting on this page. Otherwise, I'd say it's your call. Thanks for trying, any which way.

Also, why does Stellar want access to my Facebook account?

I do not know. But when I recentishly turned on Platform to allow an App to integrate, I concluded (as someone who is inclined to be somewhat conservative about such things) that there was nothing to worry about if it was temporary and there was no immediate damage while the App was permitted. (If it does something like post embarrassing things to your timeline or someone else's, it would show up in your Facebook Activity Log. (Mine hasn't shown anything for when the Stellar app was integrated.)

Is there any danger of it spamming everyone on my friends list with ads for Stellar?

Nobody who reported back on Facebook saying they'd done it complained of anything untoward happening. It's conceivable that integrating the app even temporarily could mean that your friends see slightly more Stellar apps (if such things even exist) instead of the usual types of ads they see, if the ad algorithm took it into account or something? But I'm guessing that's not what you mean, that you meant more like Stellar making posts or sending messages via your account to friends, which doesn't seem to have happened to anybody who claimed the Stellar.

Thanks for your comment; I shall update the post with my advice about Platform in case it helps anybody else.