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We Need Your Help: Fill out the Shanghaiist Reader Survey

shanghaiistreadersurveygrab.jpgPlease.

We know, we know. We hate filling out online surveys, too. But this one is for a good cause: Us. (And it's totally anonymous and takes less than five minutes to complete.)

Since we're all friends here, we'll be upfront and totally honest about why we'd like you to fill our our Reader Survey: We are tired of being poor. We'd like to sell some ads so our poorly paid contributors can eat a decent meal every now and then. Call us greedy.

To help sell ads, we need to know more about you, our readers. So that is why we would like you to take five minutes to fill out our Reader Survey (remember, this survey is totally anonymous.)

Some have asked, "Why should I fill out your survey? What's in it for me?" We're sorry that we can't give you anything for filling out the survey. If we did, that would eliminate the anonymity of the survey. But more importantly: We are poor. And we can't afford to give you anything. Which brings us back to the main point of this post:

Please fill out the Shanghaiist Reader Survey.

The information you provide will help Shanghaiist grow and improve. And hopefully that benefits everyone in the long run.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Contact the author of this article or email tips@shanghaiist.com with further questions, comments or tips.
By Dan Washburn in on July 5, 2006 2:29 PM

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  • Listen - it really takes a lot of work to keep up a site like this. I personally think the info I get on this site is some of the most interesting available on living in Shanghai. If they need a little help developing some info that will help create some income, more power to them.



    BTW, the cookie is set so that the same person can't submit the request more than once..so the at least the survey is a little more valid. Unless they ask for your email and contact.. its an anonymous survey.

  • Well, it's not as if we go to these expensive restaurants regularly, and remember there are several people writing, and some of them have regular jobs, and others are media folks that sometimes get a free meal here or there, so really it's hard to infer anything about our individual economic situations in that way. Yeah, i've been known to go to boonna, to get a 15 rmb coffee or a 28 rmb pasta. Not sure how the ability to do is so enviable a thing, i'm sure you have the funds to do that.

  • Dan

    We never said our significant others were poor, too.

  • elias

    not to nit-pick, but i am pretty sure you can't call yourself poor if you are considered a "regular" at the tong ren lu diner, or frequent places such as Aegean, a future perfect, boonna cafe, the mediterranean cafe, blue frog and most of the other restaurants written about on this site. many of us with full-time jobs only wish we had the funds to live like shanghaiist contributors. but anyway, keep up the good work!

  • 永凯

    Pat; Your comment does not make any sense. What does setting a cookie show lack of anonymity?

  • Pat

    If it's anonymous, why does it set a cookie on my PC ?

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