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

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

That's really, deeply unpleasant. After all the various whiny reasons that people have given over the years for hating LJ, this is one that actually means something. I'm glad people have suggested above that there's a way out of it for you.

[calime]

Yeah, it is. Actually, that - getting parts of what I see automatically converted into Russian - was what finally tipped the scales for me, back when it happened after SUP bought LJ/6A, into recognising that perhaps the service I signed up for had changed too much to be likeable for me any more.
I've followed the instructions by helpful people and I hope that it works at least so far that I get to vote.