This comment:
in regards to this answer with +22 votes where the images are at the very bottom of the post, after all of the text.
These three comments:
The pictures are cute but I fail to see how they enhance this answer.
in regards to this answer with +10 votes where the images are interspersed, but they are not particularly large.
I'm baffled by several things
- How is it self-evident that some images make a post hard to read. This is the internet, we have text and images embedded all the time, browsers on computers and mobile devices are fine-tuned for text+image content. I simply can not see how in 2019 this can be a real, actual, bona-fide problem.
- When a post is well-received, there probably wasn't a problem reading it and/or the images were appreciated. Why not just move on to posts that are not well received, and see what can be done to improve them? We can't recreate other people's posts or writing style to conform to our own tastes. Stack Exchange communities evolve. As far as I know there are no rules that say Astronomy SE answers must be spartan.
I spend most of my time in SE between Space SE and Astronomy SE. If I compare the two, I see a lot more armchair criticism on other people's posts and skill levels here than I do there. In Space SE I see what is possible in terms of a healthy, positive community that generally tries to honor each other's styles and attitudes. Here I see much more energy (by some users) put in to pointing out little stuff and irrelevant things that they would have done differently.
So I'd like to ask:
Question: What gives with all these comments about "too many images" in some of my posts?
- What's wrong with me choosing to show a meteorite that landed on Mars looks like up close?
- What's wrong with me being amazed by astronomical images and sharing them with others?
- What's wrong with me sharing a little awe in the cosmos here in Astronomy SE?
- Why not simply keep things positive? If a post is well-received, be glad for the people who enjoyed it, be glad for the site and HNQ traffic, be glad to be alive, and move on to the next post.
I'm not asking why some of you wouldn't, I'm asking why it seems to be so important to go out of your way to tell others to stop doing so.