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I just skimmed over these various walls of text, but regarding the "why", I assume this is down to the Collections feature on Nexus only being able to link to mods on Nexus itself.

I agree, if he isn't including it in some greater BOSSR mod pack why on earth would he upload it to Nexus? If you're making a list of mods, whether it be one person's "guide" or Snigaroo's Mod Builds, the fact that it is a list means that all the mods listed are optional as the user has free will to pick and choose what mods they want to use. With that in mind, what benefit does this guy get by having your mod on Nexus if this is all for a guide? Sith Holocron is a hard-liner when it comes to mod rules. <Insert 1984 joke here>

I don't know how things are in other modding communities, but even as far back as Lucasforums, we had a general good faith policy of communicating with the mod authors. A form of common courtesy to reach out and check in with them. This allowed for open communication, everyone being aware (as they could be) of what was going on, and even assisting in refining the work or helping to avoid pitfalls. And that was a wonderful system. The point was the common courtesy and being able to have evidence of a good-faith attempt to update the mod author on things. Even with KotOR's Filefront died, we as staff discussed and agreed on a process using the community's historical precedent of good-faith contacts. We checked each author's permissions and when necessary, we reached out to those authors through any channels we had. Then we waited a respectable time for a response (I can't recall how long that time was, but I believe it was at least a month). This was well-received by many, and a key point was that we reached out before we went and did a thing. Now, I realize that was years ago and cultural norms shift, especially online, but this has usually never been an issue in this community. I can well understand SH's response to getting told about `proper modding etiquette`; SH has been a stable pillar when it comes to that very concept for well over a decade. The seeming lack of perspective to realize that is surprising. I don't know if the person frequents NexusMods more than here, or how knew they might be, but I foresee this problem could come up more and more over time with the sheer size of an outlet like NexusMods.