You are hating on the wrong entity here.

This is clearly Stellars fault for wrongly advertising that Polo is taking part, although Poloniex never agreed. They didnt even participate last year.

Since all unclaimed tokens will go to the Stellar Foundation, this is very scammy behaviour by Stellar and they should be held responsible

I have heard that Poloniex refuses to distribute Stellar to its customers:
Polo Rep: Ok, I got clarification on the STR distribution question
Polo Rep: I’m sorry. We never committed to that. Unless you see otherwise in the Notices section at Poloniex.com, I would assume not and withdraw to your own wallet to participate.
Customer: poloniex committed to distributing the STR to their costumers iirc
Polo Rep: I was told we did not. Management told me this. Today.
Polo Rep: I understand someone said we did, but we did not commit to that, as far as I know.

if this is true, Stellar fucked up and should be held responsible and distribute Stellar to the Poloniex BTC holders directly, otherwise they would just keep it for their foundation for their own enrichment.
(This screenshot clearly shows that Stellar listed Poloniex: https://puu.sh/wuvd3/e860835207.png (48kB)