sPINELESSjELLY

The way I see it the imageshare, as opposed to the rest of the Nexus, is not a file-sharing site. It's not even an online art gallery, the way deviantART is for example. It's a community. It's a Skyrim (and Oblivion and Fallout and NWN etc) tale-sharing community, a way to divulge one's own vision of the game's world and to participate in other people's ingame experience. It's what some of these games have closer to multiplayer, and sometimes even more than that. Because what lots of people experience isn't simply a kill monster/upgrade hero/move to next level sequence, for many of us it's taking part in a story and sometimes that story doesn't have anything to do with quests. These image galleries are vital to telling these stories. People have spent considerable time and creativity to express their personal visions and give life to their tales - it's one of the main advantages of the Nexus imageshare over other sites, the only way to present this kind of sequential image narrative without having to create your own blog somewhere. What's more, they help reduce spam. If I have 3 interesting takes on the same scene, I don't need to post thrice, I can create a gallery of alternative takes. And last but not least, one can use this feat to promote the work of others. Very few screenarchers make it to the Top Images, which thus results incapable to mirror the best of what the imageshare has to offer. It would be awesome if there was a gallery somewhere of someone's favourite pics so others might consult it, but since there's not the only way to share one's personal preferences is to create a friend/fav/best of thumbnail gallery for everyone to see. And that's three reasons why the image galleries need to stay. Or even encouraged.