Today, we’re beginning a research effort to learn more about, well, you!

reddit doesn’t require users to share any personal or demographic information with us, because respecting user privacy is one of our core values. But, as our community grows and our culture changes, it’s important that we know how we can make (and keep!) your experience on reddit awesome.

To learn about redditors, we’re going to be launching user surveys, like the one below. In addition, we’ll be interviewing some of you and making it easier for you to give us feedback.

Many redditors love to navel gaze (hi, /r/theoryofreddit!), so we’re going to make sure we share what we learn back with the community. You’ll see these in occasional blog posts or in /r/redditdata (and /r/dataisbeautiful, if we feel we can uphold ourselves to their standards).

Edit: Thank you so much for the overwhelming response, reddit! Literally. Our google form can’t handle any more data for now. We’re looking into alternate methods of conducting surveys so we can hear from everybody. In the meantime, we’ve taken this survey down and are poring through the awesome amount of data we got. We’re so grateful for your interest, and we’re sorry if you didn’t get to take the survey this time. There will be more!