When the administrator judges that the user has violated or may violate the terms of service, or when the content owner reports a copyright infringement, a written warning along with the penalty will be passed to the user. The penalty includes the deletion of the live broadcast and time shift.

A warning will be sent to the user's email address. If user email has changed, please note that the warning will be sent to the email address registered with the user account.

The number of warnings and the description of the penalty will be as follows:

• 1st warning: Live broadcast banned for 1 week
• 2nd warning: Live broadcast banned for 1 month
• 3rd warning: Live broadcast banned permanently.
  

*If the administrator determines that the user is involved in malicious activity, the user will be banned regardless of the number of warnings.

No user live broadcasts are permitted from the clubs owned by banned users. All reservations scheduled for the duration of the ban will be canceled.

Flash may freeze due to the following reasons.

 

Symptom 1: The Flash froze the moment you "Allowed" camera access.

If this is the case, the devices connected to the computer or the desktop capture soft may be causing the problem. Please turn of the said devices on the device manager or unplug the device from the computer to identify the problem.

 

Symptom 2: The screen becomes green-ish and the image shown in Flash freezes.

 

If this is the case, the GPU assisted video playing function on Flash 10.1 may have caused the problem. Please take the following steps to turn off the GPU assisted video playing function.

Right click on top of the Flash and click on "Settings".

Once the AdobeFlashPlayer settings is displayed, check-off the "Enable Hardware Acceleration"

 

Symptom 3 : Others

In regards to the trouble that occurs after acquiring the program block for broadcast please try out the following solution.

 

(1) Browser Compatibility

If you are using Internet Explorer, please use another browser such as FireFox.

 

(2) Compatibility problem in the Flash version

Certain version of Flash may cause the player to freeze.

If this is the case, please another version of flash or use another browser.

*Install the latest version from here.

 

(3) Delete the "Website Memory Area" in Flash

If there is something wrong in "Website Memory Area" in Flash it may cause the player to freeze.

Please try deleting the "Visited Websites" for "live.niconico.com".

 

(4) Compatibility Problem with the desktop capture software

If you are using a particular desktop capture software, the Flash and video streaming software may freeze due to video image with abnormal bit rates being sent.

If this is the case please uninstall the software.

 

(5) Compatibility problem with the video effect software

If you have a software that adds effects to the videos installed from a CD that came with a camera please uninstall them.

If this does not solve the problem, please reinstall the camera driver.

 

(6) Problem with Adobe Flash Player

Please uninstall the current Adobe Flash Player and then install the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.

After logging out from niconico.com, reboot your computer.

If the steps above does not solve the problem, there may be a problem between your computer environment and the Adobe Flash Player. If possible please reinstall the OS and contact Adobe Flash Player about the forced termination.

 

Those who meet one of the following requirements can start their own broadcast within the community.

- Premium member and an administrator for the club

- Authorized to live broadcast by the club administrator and have a premium member account.

- Special member and have a premium membership account.

 

For more information on User Live Broadcasting see here.

 

• "Broadcast History"

In Broadcast History, you can view the club's broadcast archives. Some club's archives may be inaccessible depending on their archive settings.

 

Club owners can change archives settings from "Change club profile".

Timeshift can be viewed until 1 week after the end of broadcast.

 

For more information on timeshift mode, go here.

• "Club Name"

Club name can have a maximum of 255 letters.

Club name is a required field.

 

• "Club Introduction"

Club introduction can have a maximum of 8192 letters.

Please remember to close the tags if you are using a HTML in your introduction.

 

• "Tags"

Only the owner may edit the club tags. Maximum: 10 tags.

 

• "Club Publicity"

The community may choose either to be a "Public Club" or a "Private Club".

What are "Public Clubs"?

Public clubs are viewable to all Nico Nico users.

What are "Private Clubs"?

Private club is viewable only to its members and will not show up on the club search results.

*You can change these settings from the "Edit Club Profile" after you've finished creating the club.

 

• Settings on new club members

While creating your club, you can edit how it will accept new members and their authorization settings.

1. Automatic/Manual approval

-In an automatic approval, the club will accept new members without the consent from its owner as long as it is within the membership capacity.

-In a manual approval, the club will only accept members with the consent from either its owner or members with authorities.

 

2. Personal information (Only with manual approval)

The approver may view at the new member's personal information registered on Nico Nico.

Personal Information includes..

- Type of membership on Nico Nico (Standard, Premium)

- Date of birth

- Gender

- Country

 

3. Approval authorization for club members (Only with manual approval)

This is optional setting will enable members besides the owner to approve new participants.

4. Authorization to live broadcast

This authorization will enable new members to live broadcast within the club.

5. Authorization to upload/delete videos

This authorization will enable members to upload or delete videos in a club.

 

*You can change these settings from the "Edit Club Profile" after you've finished creating the club.

*The settings for new members will apply to those who will participate from that point on and may differ from the current settings.

• What to do after participating in a club

Start User Broadcast

If you are a premium member and authorized to live broadcast, you can start your user live broadcast within the club.

 

Write a message

Here, a community member can write schedules for live broadcast and news directed towards other club members.

For details, see here.

• What do I do if I find other users violating the basic prohibitions?

- Report

If you happen to spot a violation, please report the case to the club owner from the forum and request him/her to deal with the problem.

If this does not solve the problem, users can report to the site administrators from various pages. Please help us by reporting the case in detail.

- Basic Prohibitions

Basic prohibitions for Nico Nico Club are listed in the "Terms of Service".

If there happens to be a violation, we the administrator will act accordingly to the Terms of Service.

 

• Managing Nico Nico Club
  

For abuses we consider prohibited, please refer to the Terms of Service.

We may delete contents that include such violations without the consent from its user.

Refusal to comply with our warning will result in account deletion.

Warnings/deletion will be carried out by the site administrator's decisions and will not take questions regarding the matter.

 

• Conflict between users

As a general rule, we do not interfere with conflict between users.

If the conflicts are related to club usage, please consult with the club owner or solve the matters within those concerned.

We thank you for your cooperation.

 

• "Deletion/restriction of clubs

1. Regularly deleted clubs.

- Clubs with less than 1 member (includes clubs owner) and remains as a one member clubs for over 30 days.

- Clubs without that has been owner-less for over 30 days. (*1)

*"Owner-less" means that the owner has withdrawn from Nico Nico.

2. Clubs with restricted functions 

- A club with a owner that hasn't logged into either Nico Nico main page, Nico Live nor Nico Nico Club for over 30 days will be restricted of it's video upload and live broadcasting functions.

• What are club owners?

A club owner may give a part of club's administrative rights to selected (All) members.

For details on bestowal of authorities to new members, see here.

 

• Club owner's authority

1. Manage club profile

2. Manage club symbol

3. Manage messages

4. Manage club member's authorizations

5. Transfer authorities

6. Perform live broadcasts

"Club profile"

Only the club owner may manage the club profile.

To edit club profile, go to your club's top page and click on "Edit Club Profile".

 

"Club symbol"

Only the club owner may manage to club symbol.

To change club symbol, go to your club's top page and click on "Change club symbols".

*Image size must be within 100 KB and in JPG, PNG or GIF format.

*Avatars will be saved as H150 x W150 pixel, JPG format.

Large images will be shrunk while keeping its aspect ratio. When so, the blank space will be covered in white

 

"Managing messages"

The message allows you to notify the other member the news or schedule for live broadcast.

 

Members with authorization to write messages

- Owner

- Club member selected by the owner

*For details on the bestowal of administrative rights, see here

 

How to write a message

Click on the "Edit messages" to open up a list of messages.

Then click on "Create new message" to create a new message.

 

How to edit/delete messages

Click on the "Edit" located on the "List of notices" page to edit past notices.

Then click on "Delete" to delete past messages.

 

How to change number of notices on the Club Top

Click on pull-down menu for "Change number of notices on the Club Top" on the "List of notices" page and select you choice.

Club member's authorization

A club owner may change the member's authorization from "Participating Member" > "Member's various authorization rights".

Change authorization

1. Live Broadcasting

Authorized premium members may perform a user live broadcast within the club.

2. Approving application for participation

If the club has been to "Manual Approval", the owner and authorized members may approve application of participation.

 

* To change settings for new members (new comers), see here.

* The settings for new members will apply to those who will participate from that point on and may differ from the current settings.

 

• "Transferring club ownership"

A club owner may transfer his/her ownership to another member.

Head over to the club you own and click on "Participating Member" > "Member's various authorization settings".

You may only choose one member as a tranferee. If you want to change the member, please cancel the application and redo the transfer procedures.

 

The following are requirements for transferring club ownership.

Transferrer must be..

A club owner

*A club owner can transfer their ownership regardless of their membership status (Standard, Premium).

 

Transferee must be..

A club member with a Premium membership

*Even if the transferee was a premium member at the time of the application, the member may not receive ownership if he/she has become a standard member or withdrawn from Nico Nico by the time of the confirmation.

 

• Why isn't the club introduction updated?

If you are using an HTML tag, you may have made a mistake in the HTML tags. Please be sure to close the tags and remember that the introduction will not be updated if letters like "<"and ">" are used.

• Participating in a Club

If you want to participate in a club, click on "Join this club" on the club top page.

In Nico Nico Club there are 2 kinds of community. One will accept new member automatically and the other requires consent from the club owner. If you are an applicant for the latter, please be noted that it may take time for you to be accepted.

By checking on the "Receive results by email", a notification email will be sent to the email address used on the application.

Application for participation once sent cannot be canceled.

• Start User Broadcast

If you are a premium member and is authorized to live broadcast, you can start your user live broadcast within the club.

For more information on user broadcast, check here.

• Maximum club participation

Standard Member - Standard member can join up to 50 clubs.

Premium Member - Premium member can join up to 300 clubs.

• Withdraw from a club

If you want to withdraw from a club, go down to the bottom of the club top page and click on "Withdraw from this club"

*Please note that if you withdraw from Nico Nico before withdrawing from your club, you will still be listed as a participating member of that club.

*If you happen to accidentally withdraw from Nico Nico itself, please contact the club owner and request for deletion of club membership.