My personal opinion is:
- Having ship-data is nice. IMO-Nr. should be mandatory ! Because, by IMO-Nr. you can always find out more about a ship ! If I am really so courious, I can take the number and search for more info.
- All other data, I think - not mandatory to post !
One reason: All other things than IMO-Nr. is a topic that might change. Even length of a ship can change :lol:
I would not like to have outdated information on a photo, when I am searching for a ship. Shipowners, Charterer etc., all subject to change.
Another reason: Laziness !! I simply don't want to take time, to tediously type in detail after detail.. while 1000 other menbers are doing the same ! I know some do that.. but for me, typing and typing that, is too much. After I spent a week or so at the coast, coming back with all the photos, I spent my freetime after work for uploading. I think, if someone is really interested in the information: Copy IMO and search !!
I do put basic info under my photos, but this is a copy& paste job from Equasis.
And the final reason: We have here thousands of people typing in the same stuff ?? It's not really eeh.. up to date I'd say !!
I think, there should be a kind of database where data is transferred automatically and shown with the photos (by IMO-Nr.). Just, if you check vesseltracker, no bothering about putting in data !!!
So, if I really am interested in a ship's specifics, I do anyways not use shipspotting.com to look for that. I go to vesseltracker, or some other pages that are around.
Just my thoughts.. 8-)