user1398: Recently, I have seen several questions with animated gifs being edited to contain only the link to the images.
I understand that too many animated gifs can cause high CPU load for people with old computer and choke the connection for people with limited bandwidth.
However, the questions look quite bad, since it consists of only 1-2 lines of text with the link to the picture.
So I have thought up a few solutions to this problem:

Take a notable frame of the animated gif and put it up
Effort gauge: Use a tool to view and extract a good frame from the gif and upload it.
Include one (or more) animated gif, as long as the total size of the images do not exceed a threshold
Effort gauge: Check the size of the image (can be done easily in Firefox, outside incognito mode, not sure for other browsers).
(Your solution?)

Or maybe leaving the post barren is not a problem in the first place? What do you think?

user27: Images should not be the main part of the question. If all you can do is ask your question with an image to begin with, it's not a good question (Yes, that refers to identification-request questions as well).
If your question consists of one line with an image, it should probably be closed anyway.
What's the solution? Write more. The image should only be an added value, not the main thing.
If imgur drops dead tomorrow, your post should still stand, even if it doesn't look as pretty. 

TL;DR - I don't think there's anything that needs doing on that part. We just need better written questions, regardless of the images in it.

1398: <p>Recently, I have seen several questions with animated gifs being edited to contain only the link to the images.</p>

<p>I understand that too many animated gifs can cause high CPU load for people with old computer and choke the connection for people with limited bandwidth.</p>

<p>However, the questions look quite bad, since it consists of only 1-2 lines of text with the link to the picture.</p>

<p>So I have thought up a few solutions to this problem:</p>

<ul>
<li><p>Take a notable frame of the animated gif and put it up</p>

<p><strong>Effort gauge:</strong> Use a tool to view and extract a good frame from the gif and upload it.</p></li>
<li><p>Include one (or more) animated gif, as long as the total size of the images do not exceed a threshold</p>

<p><strong>Effort gauge:</strong> Check the size of the image (can be done easily in Firefox, outside incognito mode, not sure for other browsers).</p></li>
<li><p>(Your solution?)</p></li>
</ul>

<p>Or maybe leaving the post barren is not a problem in the first place? What do you think?</p>
 27: <p>Images should not be the main part of the question. If all you can do is ask your question with an image to begin with, it's not a good question (Yes, that refers to <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/identification-request" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;identification-request&#39;" rel="tag">identification-request</a> questions as well).</p>

<p>If your question consists of one line with an image, it should probably be closed anyway.</p>

<p>What's the solution? Write more. The image should only be an added value, not the main thing.</p>

<p>If imgur drops dead tomorrow, your post should still stand, even if it doesn't look as pretty. </p>

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<p>TL;DR - I don't think there's anything that needs doing on that part. We just need better written questions, regardless of the images in it.</p>
