ChinaGeeks Reader Survey
It’s been over a year since our last reader survey. Time for another! This year’s is more focused on demographics, and it’s probably patently clear from the questions that I’m pondering trying more seriously to support the site with advertisements. Please answer honestly and only once (you shouldn’t be able to answer more than once but with VPNs and multiple IPs you probably could).
You’ll note that we’ve got this lovely built-in survey now, rather than the horrible SurveyMonkey thing everyone had to put up with last year. It somewhat limits the kind of questions we can ask and it’s not going to make any pretty graphs, but it should be a much smoother experience for you. You won’t be able to see the results after you vote but I will publish them after we’ve collected enough surveys. Please take a minute to fill it out.
By the way, all this is ANONYMOUS, obviously. I will get a tally of the results, but not any information about who answered what. So rest easy and be honest!
Reader Demographics
ChinaGeeks Reader Demographics SurveyOne final question: What else would you like to share with us? What do you like/dislike about the website? Any suggestions? This is your open ended question; please answer it (if you want) in the comments. (You can choose to use your regular username, or post anonymously by entering a fake email if you want, it doesn’t matter to us). Thanks!
I get information primarily through your twitter feed, which I find to be excellent
RSS feed for me, likewise excellent.
You guys are the most trustworthy resource on China- walking the path between the propaganda of the Chinese government, and the massive bias against China in the Western Media.
I first heard about you on the Sinica podcast, and I’ll basically say the same thing I said to Kaiser: expecting a bunch of guys married to Chinese women to genuinely criticize China is effectively asking them to criticize themselves and the lives they’ve chosen. You obviously love China or you wouldn’t be here, which is great, but I would appreciate, now and then, holding China to a higher standard (eg. the 1st world one)… it’s the only way this country will ever develop.
That said, the concept of translating Chinese news is awesome because we get to see (if we can’t read Chinese) how the local press is spinning the story to brainwash the locals. Which is very telling.
I am breaching protocol…..
my answer to the question, “how often do you read ChinaGeeks?”
DAILY!!!
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wansui
I will not respond to all of the questions listed, otherwise I would participate in this survey.
That said, there is a problem with these two questions:
Are you aware the ChinaGeeks team is currently working on a documentary film?
Are you aware the ChinaGeeks team is also available for freelance writing, translation, reporting, and news video-related jobs?
These should be re-worded:
Were you aware prior to this survey that the ChinaGeeks team….?
Your Twitter feed is a very good source of information and links.
Good job making a readable and interesting blog, thanks. Keep it up.
I also (usually) enjoy reading the blathering exchanges of the select few … eh … ‘commenters’ … that you seem to attract:)
“but I would appreciate, now and then, holding China to a higher standard (eg. the 1st world one)… it’s the only way this country will ever develop.”
Not from me. Less moralistic preaching and more of trying to understand why things are the way they are in China.
For the stuff about why I read the website, an “all of the above” or the ability to check more than one option would be nice.
@ Josh: Yeah, sadly that’s a limitation of the system we’re using. It’s free, and conveniently in-site, but it doesn’t support choosing more than one option, so I figured I’d just make people pick one and see what happened (otherwise I think most people would have just chosen the some/all of the above option).
@ Michael A. Robson: You don’t read this blog much, do you? Because it’s like 95% critical of China. What kind of standard were you talking about?