Basic nicovideo comments

February 11, 2008

So you’ve been to nicovideo.jp and watched some videos, become amazed with the vocaloid songs and wondered if that person dancing is a boy… or if it really is a girl.

You have also seen all of the interesting ways people comment. Sometimes they frame things and sometimes they just put a “!” over someone’s head and it’s all-and-all pretty much fun to watch. But how do they do it?

This post will try to explain the basics about nicovideo commenting.


Basic commenting:
Non-paying members of nicovideo have these colours to play with:

and everyone can specify the position the text at the top and the bottom. The text will position itself if not specified.

You specify colour and position in this textbox:

and you have some shortcuts if you press the green button to the left of the box, like thus:

The positions:
Up, above: ue
Down, subtitles: shita

Example of how you can use the commands:

which gives you this result:

And that’s about it for basic commenting.

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1. Nicovideo: Comment filters
2. Nicovideo: navigation
3. How to register a user on nicovideo.jp
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5. The new Nicovideo player

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