No Nut November (Reddit)

r/nonutnovember is the official subreddit of No Nut November, created by Yeeval on 3 November 2017. It is currently owned by Smith.

The subreddit's mascot is Mascot Velvet.

2017
r/nonutnovember was founded on 3 November 2017 by Yeeval, mostly as a joke.

2018
Realising that No Nut November grew to be a bigger trend than expected, Yeeval made significant changes to the subreddit, which included features that the subreddit still uses today, like roll-calls and medal flairs.

2020
Prior to the subreddit's reopening, Yeeval retired from all No Nut November operations completely on 26 October, passing the Nut Chief title to Smith. Under Smith, several changes where implemented on the mod team to improve communication between moderators and chemistry of the team overall. New mod applications were announced on 25 October. To help with the new age of the subreddit, Smith opted in VelvetRose24, who has previously worked with Smith to create the No Nut November Wiki, to mod in the subreddit starting 18 October 2020, making her the first user to be brought in the mod team under Smith. However, Smith was rendered unavailable to moderate the subreddit properly due to personal reasons, keeping him away from subreddit duties. Not wanting to leave the subreddit leaderless in his periods of absence, he promoted Velvet to serve as the de-facto Nut Chief of the subreddit on 2 November.

With Velvet mainly in charge, roll-calls now had a proper time schedule; they are to be posted on 00:00 EST, and are to be marked as such with an "Official Roll-Call" flair to guide users in commenting on the correct post for Diamond flair eligibility. These changes were made to prevent confusion caused by the random, unscheduled roll-call posting that occurred in the previous NNN season.

As per schedule, Velvet hosted the Day 2 roll-call on 00:00 EST. The turnout of the Day 2 roll-call surprised the mod team, making so much noise that it found itself as the 3rd most popular Reddit post in the United States after 7 hours of its posting. It has also garnered controversy from users outside of the subreddit, with the roll-call being falsely reported several times for spam, misinformation, and vulgarity. The sudden peak of attention attracted from the Day 2 roll-call started a trend where roll-calls would commonly reach r/all, peaking with the Day 23 roll-call with over 17.8k upvotes, most in subreddit history. As a result of this trend, the top 4 most upvoted posts in the subreddit's history are all roll-calls made by Velvet.

At the end of NNN 2020, numerous people have voiced complaints on not being eligible for the Diamond flair despite having completed NNN themselves, due to the lack of information regarding the purpose of roll-calls. This confusion was addressed by Velvet on 3 December, stating that future roll-calls will now specifically state the exact requirements for the Diamond NoNutter flair. An Unverified Diamond NoNutter 2020 flair was introduced at the same time to compensate to users who have not been able to comment on enough roll-calls on time.

The subreddit's official mascot, Mascot Velvet, was introduced in the End of Season announcement, with plans to utilize the character for NNN 2021.

2021
MaximumVelour was opted into the mod team by Velvet and Smith prior to the first of the monthly offseason threads planned by the moderators. He debuted with a post hyping up the first monthly update thread, while introducing himself to the subreddit users, citing Velvet as his inspiration to taking up the mod job, and announcing plans to improve the subreddit with Velvet.

The first monthly offseason thread was posted on 1 February, 00:00 EST. The post revealed plans to remodel the Old Reddit subreddit theme to cater to Redditors still using Old Reddit. The remodelled theme was introduced on 14 February.

JD-Weedman era (2022 and beyond)

In the wake of Smith and Max's semi-retirements, and Velvet's full retirement, Smith promoted moderators JD_Bus_ and xX420_Weedman_420Xx to Nut General and granted them both the title of admin of the subreddit.

Roles

 * Nut Officer — The lowest staff ranking, the Nut Officer role indicates users who have Post permissions in the subreddit. Officers and their ability to moderate the subreddit are observed by higher mods to determine if they are deemed worthy of promotion.
 * Nut Corporal — The regular Moderators of the subreddit. These users have Posts and Modmail permissions, the same permissions granted to moderators in the old Nut Police role.
 * Nut Captain — Moderators who have Posts, Modmail, and Flair permissions. Captains and above have the ability to help people with Diamond flair issues.
 * Nut Colonel — Post, modmail, flair, wiki perms
 * Nut Admiral — The Senior moderators of the subreddit, Admirals have Posts, Modmail, Flair, Wiki, and Access permissions. Moderators in this position and higher are able to ban users who constantly break the rules.
 * Nut General — The highest regular staff ranking, Generals are moderators who have been granted these permissions: Posts, Modmail, Flair, Wiki, Access, and Config.