1. What is a circle? Aggregation generates value, communication expands influence, and the circle gathers popularity. Sina Circle is carefully created by Sina based on the first Chinese blog product for bloggers and netizens. It not only extends the vision of blogs, but also helps Sina users promote their articles, share similar interests, and make more friends. Provides a brand new platform. Whether you are a senior blogger, a social creature, or a sharing person, whether you want to discuss your hobbies, give advice, share your life, or make friends, you can travel in the Sina circle to create and find like-minded literary friends. Meetings, clubs, friend circles... Sina Circle not only provides you with convenient tools, professional classifications and considerate services to help you quickly become famous in the world, but also provides you with rich content, massive friends and exclusive media advantages. Let Circle, let Sina, continue to create new value in your online life. Second, how many roles are there in the circle? There are four types of roles in the circle: circle owners, administrators, senior circle friends and ordinary circle friends. A user can only have one role and cannot have multiple identities at the same time. Circle owner: The holder of the circle. The circle creator defaults to the circle owner. The creator can also transfer his circle owner status to other circle friends (this function is not yet open), but the honorary title of the founder will be permanently preserved. Circle owners can manage circle information, circle settings, circle articles, circle members and other related matters, and can also add and delete administrators to assist in their own management. Administrator: Administrators are special circle members who are given certain management rights by the circle owner. They can manage circle articles, circle members and other related matters. However, administrators cannot manage each other, and administrators cannot manage circle owners. Senior circle friend: Senior circle friend is the embodiment of circle friend status. They are senior members of the circle and do not have the management rights of the circle. Ordinary circle friends: Ordinary circle friends do not have any special identities and management rights. Three, what can I do in the circle? As a content viewer, a circle is like a magazine. You can easily find the circle that suits you based on your interests and needs, and grab the most suitable content from the essence of the circle. As a friend-level user, you can go to different circles to find like-minded people, post articles to discuss topics that everyone likes, find friends with similar interests, and recommend your beautiful articles to different circles for everyone to comment on. If finding and joining a circle does not meet your needs, you can also create your own circle to collect articles, anecdotes, pictures, activities, experiences from all over the world... to include all your classmates, colleagues, friends, relatives, and fellow villagers. , let the same hobbies, needs, and interests bring people you want to know together, expand each other's circle of friends, and develop your own network. Summary of the functions of circles: a) Browse circle blog posts b) Recommend your own blog posts to the circle c) Go to the circle to make friends d) Go to the circle to initiate and participate in activities e) Create a circle to receive blog posts needed by the circle f) Create a circle to create a communication space for friends g )Create a circle and start expanding your network IV. How to create a circle? Click the Create Circle button on the page and fill in the relevant information as needed on the page to easily create a circle. As long as users have opened a Sina blog, they can create a blog circle. Each Sina user can create up to 5 circles. 5. How to manage circles? After the circle owner or administrator logs in to the circle, they can click the "Circle Management" button to enter the circle's management background. In the circle management background, you can: Manage circle information: modify circle information, categories, set how to join circle friends, etc. Manage circle text area: The text area defaults to circle announcements and circle links. You can modify the title and content of the text area. Manage circle members: review users who apply to join the circle, set circle friend roles, etc. Manage blog posts: Set the "Sina blog classification" for the circle to receive blog posts, delete blog posts, refine blog posts, manage the classification of the circle's highlights, etc. 6. How to join the circle? To join a circle, you need to have opened a Sina blog. A Sina user can join up to 100 circles. Click the "Join Circle" button to submit an application. Depending on the settings of different circles for joining, there may be four situations: The circle allows anyone to join: You can join the circle immediately. The circle owner or administrator needs to be verified before joining: The circle owner or administrator needs to be reviewed, and only after the review is passed can you successfully join.

Password verification is required: Enter the password to join the circle, and join the circle immediately after passing the verification. The joining password is set by the circle owner. Circle is not allowed to join: Cannot join the circle. 7. How to add my blog post to my circle? To have your blog post accepted into the circle you join, you need: a) You have successfully joined this circle. b) The circle has been set up to receive blog posts of a certain category or categories. c) After you finish editing the blog article, select the "Sina Blog Category" of the blog article. d) The "Sina Blog Category" of your blog article matches the category of blog articles you added to the circle (that is, as long as it matches one of the categories), the article will be successfully crawled into the circle. 8. Why didn’t the blog post enter all the circles I joined? In order to receive and promote blog posts more effectively and targetedly, Sina provides a blog post reception setting function for the circle owners of each circle. The circle owner will set the type of blog posts that his circle wants to receive in the circle. This type corresponds to the "Sina blog category" you choose when publishing articles on your blog. If the "Sina Blog Category" to which your blog post belongs is consistent with the "reception type" set by the circle owner you have joined (the reception type will be displayed on the circle information page), your blog post will enter the circle, otherwise even if you join You have entered certain circles, and the "Sina Blog Category" of your blog post is inconsistent with the "reception type" of these circles, and you cannot enter these circles. 9. How to invite friends to join the circle? If you are a member of a circle, you have the following methods to invite friends to join the circle: On all pages within the circle, click the "Invite Members" link in the circle navigation bar below the circle theme image to invite members. Click the "Invite Members" button below the circle information area on the left side of the circle homepage to invite members. If you are the creator of a circle, in addition to the above two methods, you can also invite friends on the "Email Invitation" page in the last step of the "Creation Wizard" when creating the circle. In addition, you can also copy the link of your circle, tell your friends through email, messaging software, etc., and ask them to directly click "Join Circle" to apply to join your circle. 10. What is a tag? Tag is a tag. A tag can mark a characteristic (such as the circle's region, hobbies, characteristics, etc.). Add appropriate tags to your circle so that more interested people can find your circle. You can add multiple tags to a circle. Please separate multiple tags with spaces. 11. How to know which circles a blog post is crawled by? Click "Circle Fetch" at the bottom of the blog post to see a list of circles that have received the blog post. 12. How to exit the circle? After you log in to your circle, enter your "My Circle" page. In the list, you can choose to exit the circle. You cannot leave a circle of which you are the owner. Basic usage help Basic operations (create, join, manage) 13. How to manage circles? You can select the circles you own on the circle homepage or the "My Circles" list page. After entering, you can go to the circle information area When you see the "Circle Management" button, click it to enter the circle management page. Circle management projects include: circle management, member management, text area management, and blog post management. Circle management: a) Data management You can set circle information here, including categories, regions, tags, and introductions. You can also set the method of joining your circle here. b) Template management You can set the page template of your circle here. Currently, you can modify the theme image of the circle. Member management: Member review Here you can review the members who apply to join and decide whether to agree to them joining your circle. Permission Management You can set permissions for your circle members here. Permission levels include: Ordinary members Senior members Administrator text area management: Announcement management You can modify your announcement title and content here Link management You can modify your announcements here Friendly link title, content blog post management: Receive blog post management You can set the categories of blog posts that your circle wants to receive here. Blog article management You can manage the blog articles that enter your circle. You can refine the articles, cancel the essence, and delete the articles.

Essence Category Settings You can select the essence category when refining an article. This is your own personalized classification method. You can add, modify, and delete your essence categories here. 14. How to quickly enter the circle you participate in? You can see the list of circles you participate in by clicking "My Circle Home" on the navigation bar. You can click at will to enter the circles you participate in. 15. How to create your own circle? Click "Create Circle" on the navigation bar and the "Create Circle" button on the home page of each circle to start creating your own circle. Sina members can create their own circles after activating their blogs. You can easily complete the creation process according to the "Create Circle Wizard". 16. How to exit a circle? You can find the circle you want to exit on the "My Circle Home Page" and click the small cross icon (Exit) option under the circle's avatar to exit the circle. Note: Circle owners cannot exit the circle. 17. How can I delete the circles I created? The function of deleting circles is currently not available. 18. How to kick someone out of the circle? You can select the "Permission Management" item under "Member Management" in the circle owner management backend, and you can delete the members you want to kick out. 19. How to change the circle name? The name of the circle cannot be modified. 20. How to add a circle introduction? You can select the "Profile Settings" item under "Circle Management" in the circle owner management backend to modify your circle profile on this page. 21. How to modify circle attributes? You can select the "Data Settings" item under "Circle Management" in the circle owner management backend to modify your circle joining attributes on this page. Circle Personnel Management 22. How do I allow friends to join the circle I created without approval? You can select the "Data Settings" item under "Circle Management" in the circle owner management backend, and modify your circle attributes on this page to "Enter the password for verification before joining." This is as long as you tell your friends the password of your circle. That's it. Twenty-three, how to modify the circle’s custom domain name? The circle’s custom domain name cannot be modified. Twenty-four, how many administrators can be set up in a circle? There is currently no limit to the number of administrators in each circle. You can control the number of administrators based on the circumstances of the circle. Twenty-five, how to upgrade other members in the circle to administrators? You can select the "Permission Management" item under "Member Management" in the circle owner management backend, click "Administrator" after you want to be promoted to an administrator, and the member's role will become an administrator. Twenty-six, how to invite friends? 1) You can enter your friend's email address and invitation content on the last page of the circle creation wizard page to invite friends; 2) You can also click the "Invite Members" button below the circle information area on the home page of your circle to enter. On the invitation page, enter your friend's email address and invitation content to invite friends. 3) You can invite up to five friends at a time. Twenty-seven, the circle I created has very few people. How can I increase the number of people in the circle? You can invite friends to join your circle by inviting them, copying the link and sending it to them. You can be as appropriate as possible when filling in your introduction and tags, so that other users can understand your circle and like-minded people can join your circle. Twenty-eight, personal information management (registration, login, management) User registration: There is no need to register again for the circle. As long as you are a Sina Pass member and have opened a Sina blog, you can create and join the blog circle. User login: You can log in directly in the circle, or you can log in to Sina Pass at any location on Sina.com, and you will be logged in in the Sina circle. Password modification: Your password is the Sina Pass password. If you want to change the password, you only need to change the password in Sina Pass. Twenty-nine, what should I do if I lose my password? If your password is lost, you can follow the procedures related to the pass password to retrieve your password. Thirty, what can the administrator do? Administrators can review people who join, delete and manage permissions of friends below the administrator level, and perform blog post highlight operations. Administrators cannot modify their own permissions. Thirty-one, what is the difference between senior circle friends and ordinary circle friends? Senior circle friends are the embodiment of the circle's qualifications and will get more recommendation opportunities on the home page of the circle. Thirty-two, how does the circle leader manage the circle? Circle owners can find the circle for which they are the owner on the circle homepage and circle list page and enter the management backend.

In the management background, circle owners can manage circles, members, general text areas, and blog posts. Blog Content Maintenance Thirty-three, how to enter the blog posts of circle friends for display in the circle? To have your blog post accepted into the circle you join, you need: a) You have successfully joined this circle. b) The circle has been set up to receive blog posts of a certain category or categories. c) After you finish editing the blog article, select the "Sina Blog Category" of the blog article. d) The "Sina Blog Category" of your blog article matches the category of blog articles you added to the circle (that is, as long as it matches one of the categories), the article will be successfully crawled and entered into the circle. Thirty-four, what is the category of blog posts that the circle receives? The category of blog posts received by the circle is the category of the "Sina Blog Classification" received by the circle. In the circle owner's backend, you can choose the "Sina blog categories" your circle receives. Once set up, the circle will only receive blog posts from that category.