Should the Spacecraft Exchange sub require downloads for craft shown there?

[Keirann]

Where is the download? This is the  craft download fourm

[Vovical]

You need to supply a download link

[Vanamonde]

Players MAY but are not REQUIRED to provide downloads. Sometimes people just like to show their builds.

[Bej Kerman]

42 minutes ago, Vanamonde said:

Players MAY but are not REQUIRED to provide downloads. Sometimes people just like to show their builds.

Perhaps image-only posts could be directed to a subforum to ensure that the spacecraft exchange remains a spacecraft exchange?

[Keirann]

2 hours ago, Vanamonde said:

Players MAY but are not REQUIRED to provide downloads. Sometimes people just like to show their builds.

It's spacecraft EXCHANGE, it should be a download subfourm

[Vanamonde]

Discussion split from an unrelated thread. 

The Spacecraft Exchange sub has been around for 10+ years and has never required people showing a craft there to offer downloads of the craft. Some people seem to feel that it should, so you can discuss the question here. 

Personally, I feel that would discourage players from sharing their excitement if they HAD TO upload the file to some sharing service. 

[Bej Kerman]

6 minutes ago, Vanamonde said:

Discussion split from an unrelated thread. 

The Spacecraft Exchange sub has been around for 10+ years and has never required people showing a craft there to offer downloads of the craft. Some people seem to feel that it should, so you can discuss the question here. 

Personally, I feel that would discourage players from sharing their excitement if they HAD TO upload the file to some sharing service. 

Which is why I suggest a subforum in which no downloads are required

[Gargamel]

2 hours ago, Bej Kerman said:

Which is why I suggest a subforum in which no downloads are required

That would just add more burden to the moderation teams already hefty workload.   The sub forum has been like that for a very long time, and we don’t see a need to change it now.    
 

3 hours ago, Keirann said:

It's spacecraft EXCHANGE, it should be a download subfourm

The term exchange is used here as in a telephone exchange.     People weren’t physically trading telephones, it was just a central location used for the routing of calls.   In this case, it’s a central location where people can post both craft images and files.    Since a gallery would imply images only, exchange is more fitting term.    

[Bej Kerman]

13 hours ago, Gargamel said:

That would just add more burden to the moderation teams already hefty workload.   The sub forum has been like that for a very long time, and we don’t see a need to change it now.  

Perhaps simply announce that it's common courtesy to explicitly state whether downloads are included or not in the title, without any extensive moderation.

13 hours ago, Gargamel said:

16 hours ago, Keirann said:

It's spacecraft EXCHANGE, it should be a download subfourm

The term exchange is used here as in a telephone exchange.     People weren’t physically trading telephones, it was just a central location used for the routing of calls.   In this case, it’s a central location where people can post both craft images and files.    Since a gallery would imply images only, exchange is more fitting term.

You are technically correct, although this is a very unintuitive use of the term. The logic here may be flipped to demonstrate that while a gallery is where art can be viewed and sometimes collected, exchange implies to a great extent the circulation of useful assets e.g. craft and workspace files. Seeing as this subforum is brand new and separate from the KSP 1 ship gallery, perhaps it can be renamed. With the prevalence of aircrafts in here, and the previous points, maybe something like "Ship Gallery". It's also a bit of a play on words, as in the quarter gallery of a ship 

[Gargamel]

1 hour ago, Bej Kerman said:

Perhaps simply announce that it's common courtesy to explicitly state whether downloads are included or not in the title, without any extensive moderation.

This is easily done by adding a tag to the post title.