Yahoo is on crack. I’m annoyed.

Everyone who’s been reading me for at least 2-3 months probably remembers my little accident at FlickR. You know, the one where I couldn’t pick the country I actually live in, nor the country it split from, nor the country err…all six of these mini-countries were a part of. I thought that was a temporary glitch, so I didn’t do anything.

I tried to Google the phrase “why Yahoo doesn’t list Serbia” and even the easier variant, “Yahoo Serbia”, but the only results were ramblings about Kosovo, European union and various other Yahoo! News stories. There was no explanation why a person who’s from Serbia or Montenegro can’t select their country on any of the Yahoo network sites or any of the sites acquired by Yahoo! in near future.

I had enough of this and I contacted the support…the response I got was really, really lame and probably automatic:

Oh no! We appreciate that you contacted us for assistance, and I would love to help. However, I am unable to figure out exactly what the problem is.

In order for our MyBlogLog support team to resolve this issue, we will need to know as much of the following information as you can provide:

* Your Yahoo! ID

* The URLs for the blogs you author

* Your browser type and version number

* The text of any error messages received

* The exact steps taken that lead up to this event

Once I have all of the requested information I will investigate the error you are reporting.

ARE THEY SERIOUS?

Now I’m really glad that I don’t use Yahoo! Messenger, that I never had a Yahoo! email account or anything. Shame, shame on them.

Oh yes, PLEASE feel free to link to this particular entry, Stumble this story, submit it to Digg or whatever. I just added a plugin that does such magic. This is ignorant, ugly, stupid and it should be spreaded around, so more people would be aware of it. And of course that it matters.

Yahoocracy?!

Last night I had to register an additional FlickR account to put up some of the artistic photos of Lush Christmas products that I’d taken earlier in the day. Yahoo prompted me to register a new ID, as one obviously can’t link two FlickR accounts to one. I noticed that Serbia and Montenegro were not separated on their provided list of countries, so I selected Serbia & Montenegro and…

…the result was that I had to lie that I’m from Macedonia, because their system was refusing to register me otherwise!

I do not know if they’d ever respond to my email, but this is sure a matter worth complaining about. Not only that they did not update the list, but they also don’t let me be from the country that I was from prior to the split in May 2006. Many sites still list Serbia & Montenegro together (and I have no problem with it), some other list Yugoslavia (I do have a problem with it because if there was one more US state they’d rush to add it and they couldn’t have updated this one ever since early 2003!); but whatever is they list, I am allowed to register when I select it. This is highly bizzare!

Oh yes, and MyBlogLog was giving me a MySQL error when I was trying to update my information. But this is worse.