クラウドSaaS なび！についてに簡単な説明が記載されてますので、そちらをご覧下さい。

投稿（Story）、コメントなど、クラウドSaaS なび！を参照するだけであればアカウントを作成する必要はありません。

アカウントの作成が必要なのは、投稿（Story）を登録する、コメントを残す、自身のFeatured Pageを持つといった場合に必要です。

アカウントの作成はこちらから行うことができます。 coRankサービスへの登録になり、 （coRankサービスを利用した他のサイトの利用時にも同一のアカウントを利用できます。）

サイドバーのSubmit Storyをクリックすることで登録のステップが始まります。 まずは、投稿するStoryのURLを登録します。その後、タイトル・説明・カテゴリの選択・タグを登録。 最後にプレビューを確認し、"Yes, I'm happy..."をクリックすることで投稿は完了します。 また任意ですが、最後に表示されるページで投稿（Story）に表示した画像のアップロードもできます。

投稿（Story）に他する投票を意味してます。

クラウドSaaS なび！では上記中央の絵が該当します。 親指の上がっているマーク、下がっているマークをクリックするだけで、投票をすることができます。 どちらかを一度クリックすると、投稿（Story）に対する投票は終わったことになり、クリックすることができなくなります。

下記は投票後のイメージです。

特に判断基準はありませんので、 ご自身の判断でどちらかをクリックして、投票してください。

投票ボタンの下にある、をクリックすると、 自身の"My Favorites"としてマークされます。

一度クリックすると から に変わり、"My Favorites"としてマークされます。

投稿（Story）のタイトルをクリックすると、まずは投稿（Story）の詳細ページが表示されます。 その後、再度タイトルをクリックすることで、リンク先のオリジナルの記事が表示されます。

投稿（Story）の詳細ページの下に "Comment (x)" タブにコメントが表示されます。 コメントを残したい場合は、"Add your comment"をクリックし登録してください。

No. Although your Featured page will only get stories and sites based only on what your Sources think of them, when you engage in a conversation with other クラウドSaaS なび！ users, the conversation cannot be broken.

• My Home
  クラウドSaaS なび！の自分のエントリーページといった位置付けになっており、 4つのセクションから構成されてます。
  • Alerts
    （最後に訪れてからの）様々なことについて通知をしてくれます。 例えば、誰かがあなたのことをSourceとして登録した、 あなたのコメントに対して誰かがコメントを返信した、などです。

  • My Sources
    An excerpt of the last news stories and web pages that reached your Featured page (more on that later).

  • Last comments
    あなたがコメントを残した投稿（Story）が表示されます。

  • Last voted
    あなたが投票をした投稿（Story）が表示されます。

• My Sources
  Sourcesによって決められる興味深い投稿（Story）が表示されます。 あなたのSourcesが肯定的（ためになる）な投票をした投稿（Story）の全てが表示されるわけでは必ずしもありません。 ある特定のランキングかスコアを得た投稿（Story）が表示されます。（coRankのサービスによるので詳細は不明）

  あなたのMy Settings ページから表示内容をある程度設定できます。 Sourcesが投稿したものか、または投票された全ての投稿（Story）が”My Sources” ページで表示されるように設定できます。

• Featured
  得票数が多い投稿（Story）が表示されます。

• Upcoming
  新しい投稿（Story）が表示されます。
• Top
  全ての投稿（Story）が表示されます。表示される順序は得票順となってます。
• Talking about...
  最新のコメント一覧が表示されます。

• Profile
  Here you can see and edit your profile info.

  You can also see your site stats: How many stories you've submitted, votes you've made, how many people have looked at your profile, and how many people you've selected as Sources, as well as how many people have selected you as a Source (your fans).

  Folllowing the "Sources" and "fans" links in the Stats box, you can actually see who those people are, and add/remove them as your Sources anytime you want.

• Favorites
  Here you can see what stories you've marked as "Favorite". That way, in addition to vote up/down on stories other people send, you can keep a collection of those sites or stories that you particularly liked.

  The main difference between your Favorites and anything else, is that you can modify the title and description of your favorites, so you can describe them however it makes sense to you. After all, they are your favorites. Note however that when you actually go to the story page in クラウドSaaS なび！, the original title and description are preserved.

• Stories
  This option will show you three different sub-options:
  • Submitted
    A list in reverse chronological order of all the stories you've submitted.

  • Voted
    A list in reverse chronological order of all the stories you've voted on.

  • Comments
    A list in reverse chronological order of all the comments you've left.

    In this page, you are also notified anytime someone posts a reply to any of your comments. That way, you don't have to be sitting on a story page and reloading it countless times to see if someone replies to you. Just come to your Comments page and if someone does reply to you, you will see the alert message with a link to the story page. Extremely useful especially if you've left several comments on different stories.

• Network
  Here you will also see three different options:
  • Sources
    A list of all users you have selected as your Sources.

  • Fans
    A list of all users who have selected you as their Source.

  • Like-minded
    A list of the クラウドSaaS なび！ users who seem to have the closest similar interests to yours. You can use this list for example to add any of them as Sources.

• My Settings
  Here you configure how you want クラウドSaaS なび！ to work for you. From the criteria クラウドSaaS なび！ follows to build your personal Featured page, to the look and appearance of クラウドSaaS なび！ itself.

The User Ranking measures your degree of "クラウドSaaS なび！-ness" somehow. By voting, submitting stories, posting and ranking comments, etc. you'll be doing things that may give you a better ranking. Of course, sending 30 comments a day or submitting 10 stories a day pointlessly is not going to do it for you.

Other things affect your ranking of course, but without getting into great detail, if you use クラウドSaaS なび！ and are a good sport, your ranking will go up.

Remember however that in クラウドSaaS なび！, the influence of a user when it comes to get stories in other user's Featured pages is determined by those who select him as a Source, not by the user ranking. When you submit a story, when you vote, etc. you are treated the same as everyone else, regardless of ranking.

So, what's the point of having a ranking then? Well, 99% of what makes クラウドSaaS なび！ is the people who use it, and let's just say that we like to know who those people are. Why? Because as time goes by, it will matter.

クラウドSaaS なび！ also maintains two different rankings: one global and one that resets the first of every month. In fact, somehow we try to give the monthly ranking a bit more exposure than the global ranking.

This means that the very first day of each month, we all are equally ranked :-)

By the way, both rankings are updated only once every 24 hours, usually between 12-1am Pacific time. So if you're interested in seeing whether someone's position in the ranking has gone up or down, you really only need to visit the page once a day.

This might happen especially as long as the number of users isn't very large, and even more at the beginning of the month when the monthly ranking is reset.

クラウドSaaS なび！ uses an internal "point" system to determine a user's position in the user ranking, where the user doesn't always get rewarded (or penalized) only depending on what she or he does. For example, a user accrues points when someone else assigns that user as their Source.

And since I used the "selected as a Source" example, it may be worth mentioning that a user won't gain nor lose points by being assigned as a Source, then deassigned, then reassigned again, etc. If someone assigns you as a Source, you'll get X points, and if later that person doesn't want you as a Source anymore, you'll lose the same number of points you were given in the first place. And if too many people assign you as their Source, the amount of points you get may decrease every time, depending also on a number of factors.

Most of the ranking rules are made that way, not to claim that it's impossible to game or trick it (it is not impossible), but to avoid making it at least too trivial to do so.

消すことはできません。

但し、Downの投票が増え、Upの投票が入らない、といった形になると投稿（Story）は目立たなくはなっていきます。

可能です。

Tools ページ（英語）から設定方法を確認できます。

可能です。

Tools ページ（英語）から設定方法を確認できます。

Yes, they do, but they count just as any other Source's votes. No more, no less. You could say that クラウドSaaS なび！ assumes that your opinion is as valuable to you as any of your Sources opinions.

No. If you don't like a story or site, why should it still make it to your Featured page?

On the other hand, if you give thumbs down to a story that is already in your Featured page, for now it will still remain in your Featured page until new stories push it down, however very soon this will change so that stories you voted down do not show up in your Featured page.

Not exactly. Depending on how busy our servers are, クラウドSaaS なび！ calculates what new stories should go to your Featured page every once in a while, but never exceeding 60 minutes. Of course, whether it updates your Featured page every 5, 10 or 60 minutes, it always takes into account whatever happened ever since the last update.

Therefore, whether you check your Featured page via web or via RSS, usually you don't need to reload/update your Featured page more than once an hour in order to see whether there are new stories in your Featured page.

The number of votes and comments on a particular story are updated in real time.

Once a story makes it to your Featured page, it can only be pushed down by newer stories, but not removed, regardless of whether you add/remove Sources or modify your settings.

For example, say today you add 3 new people as Sources. These people's votes cause some stories to apear in your Featured page. Then, for whatever reason, you decide to remove them as Sources. Those stories previously promoted to your Featured page will stay there until new stories "push them down". Once a story makes it to your Featured page, it'll stay there.

The only case where a story can be removed from your Featured page is if you give it thumbs down (read the previous FAQ 19).

It all depends how you've configured your "My Sources" page includes... settings.

For example, if you've configured that option as:

• All stories... Submitted by any of my Sources

The only new stories you'll get in your Featured page will be stories submitted by your Sources.

If you have instead (or also):

• All stories... Voted by at least one of my Sources

Then all it takes is for one of your Sources to give a story a thumbs up to make it to your Featured page, regardless of who submitted the story. It's very straight-forward, really.

Things get a bit more fuzzy if you select Promoted stories instead of All stories, because now the promotion algorithm comes into play.

What this algorithm does is to look at how your Sources (plus "Sources of your Sources" if you selected that option) have been voting on a story, then, depending how they voted plus a number of other factors, a story may or may not be promoted to your Featured page, regardless of whether the story was submitted by one of your Sources or not.

On this first implementation of our FAQ we tried to cover the basic questions about using クラウドSaaS なび！. As we write a more comprehensive FAQ and Help pages, should you have any questions, please contact us.