One more reason to dislike LJ...

[calime]

I heart the effort people are making in providing information about fandom-friendly candidates for the Advisory Board elections. But. I CANNOT PUT THAT INFORMATION INTO ANY USE. BECAUSE THE FREAKING LJ AUTOMATICALLY PUTS ME INTO THE *CYRILLIC SEGMENT*, which has SEPARATE VOTING, with candidates I know nothing of.
I AM NOT RUSSIAN. Not by nationality nor by country nor by culture. I deeply resent being FORCEDLY included in *Cyrillic segment* and frankly, it makes me also deeply uncomfortable that a Russian-money-owned company automatically slaps Russian-language service etc onto the user accounts that originate from countries that were formerly OCCUPIED by USSR, countries, towards which Russia still keeps having territorial ambitions. THAT is the last and strongest reason to keep away from LJ for me.
*xposted to LJ because it concerns LJ*

Comments

[calime]

I contacted support long time ago, first when it happened. They said they can do nothing about parts of my LJ experience being in Russian. Do you mean that I could ask to be switched over for the voting?

[d-moonchild.livejournal.com]

Not for the voting alone, I don't think so. What I did was write to the Support saying that I wanted to opt out of Russian-related services (phrasing's not important, you can say "SUP-provided services" or whatever). According to reports from other Russian users who did it before, the Support would contact you, clarify that you would lose access to various additional services (don't ask me which services, I never used any) and ask to confirm the request.

In my case, this step was bypassed: I got the reply in two days saying that I am no longer signed up for the SUP services. Immediately after this notification I saw that I could vote in the international section of LJ elections. Another easy way to check whether you opted out successfully would be to go to Livejournal.ru. If you are not logged in automatically, you are SUP-free.

As for the language the menus appear in, this is something you can correct manually, without contacting the Support and regardless of whether you are using the SUP-provided services. If I remember correctly, you need to go to Journal/Settings for that.

[calime]

Thank you!! I'll certainly try this!

[calime]

Also, the menus are mostly in English, I'm just getting a part of My LJ page (new posts etc) in English, and search etc and home page want to send me to livejournal.ru. I tried going with your instructions, here's hoping for
I succeed too :)
Thank you again!

[calime]

It worked!!! *dances* Thank you!

[d-moonchild.livejournal.com]

Yay, another person overcame the Matrix! You are welcome :)