Friends, Romans, denizens, lend me your… votes on this survey! It’s been a few years, but the Ars Reader Survey is back to gauge your thoughts on the work we do and the ways we can do it better. This feedback is crucial to how we operate here at Ars; indeed, when thousands of you take the time to complete these surveys, we’d be fools not to take the results seriously.

We would really love a broad cross-section of reader responses. Longtime readers—you know us best, and we love you! But readers without accounts, lurkers, casual visitors—we also want to hear from you.

The survey isn’t long. I suspect most of you will knock it out in under five minutes. We’re asking about content formats, sections of the site, new features you might like to see, community initiatives, and more.

Our Reader Surveys put privacy first. No personally identifying information is collected. The information we glean is viewed only in aggregate. We won’t be selling it to anyone, either. In short, this is just for our use to help grow Ars Technica. (The survey is also hosted on a third-party service that we’ve used before.)

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and opinions with us! If we get 10,000 entries, Lee has agreed to wrestle a bear in a cage. (Scratch that, legal says we can't do it. -Ed.)