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Jul 4 at 2:16 history edited wjandrea CC BY-SA 4.0
Add a situation where images are appropriate in answers. Brevity/style/clarity.
Jun 24 at 22:51 history edited ruakh CC BY-SA 4.0
+"and vice versa" for the dark theme issue
Feb 12 at 11:19 history edited TheMaster CC BY-SA 4.0
Reword certain parts as to make the instructions more ambiguous to the type of post: It shouldn't matter whether the post is a question or an answer. Images are discouraged in all type of posts for the same reasons.
Nov 11, 2024 at 16:46 history edited wjandrea CC BY-SA 4.0
verbiage improvements
Sep 30, 2024 at 18:55 history edited wjandrea CC BY-SA 4.0
I missed some subtlety under "When should I use images?" Add back "screenshots of a user interface" verbiage.
Sep 30, 2024 at 18:44 history edited wjandrea CC BY-SA 4.0
I forgot to combine the lists of other textual data. Some additional copy-editing.
Sep 30, 2024 at 18:30 history edited wjandrea CC BY-SA 4.0
Move answer first (since Q is "Why shouldn't I use images?") - partial revert of revision 37. To avoid starting with a long list, add a line to break it up; move one important point above. Combine "cannot be conveyed" and "can't be made clear". Redo section headers accordingly.
Aug 14, 2024 at 9:05 history edited Thom AMod CC BY-SA 4.0
Add a link for to the markdown page for table formatting, as many users don't know how to do this and the "How do I format my posts using Markdown or HTML? " page doesn't show how to achieve this.
Jul 23, 2024 at 22:40 history edited mklement0 CC BY-SA 4.0
wording improved to avoid ambiguity
May 30, 2024 at 23:18 history edited Ryan MMod
Rollback to Revision 40 - the added reason does not make sense (I've never seen a color scheme so unusual as to be *confusing*, and issues caused by terminal settings that change *text* are self-evidently not specific to *images* of said terminal). Additionally, the edit removes useful HTML entities
May 30, 2024 at 22:19 history edited wjandrea CC BY-SA 4.0
Move latest addition under "harder to read"
May 30, 2024 at 21:39 history edited Lamper46 CC BY-SA 4.0
Added new reason
Apr 18, 2024 at 20:34 history edited wjandrea CC BY-SA 4.0
Not necessary - I added HTML to the phrase immediately before this.
Apr 18, 2024 at 20:23 history edited TylerH CC BY-SA 4.0
Capitalizing ASCII; readding "(or that would be detected as invalid HTML)" because the special meaning preceding it refers exclusively to Markdown, whereas invalid HTML would just cause (potentially) subsequent parts of the post to render incorrectly.
Apr 18, 2024 at 19:15 history edited wjandrea CC BY-SA 4.0
Add links to editing-help. I'm not sure what's meant about "invalid HTML", but it doesn't seem terribly important since "special meaning" implies formatting could get messed up.
Apr 18, 2024 at 1:38 history edited Karl Knechtel CC BY-SA 4.0
master edit: organize to put policy at the top and all the reasons together; expand on how to format non-code text; add specific exceptions with reference to other Q&A; clarify that images don't provide "debugging details"; misc copyediting for flow and clarity
Jul 15, 2023 at 16:36 history edited wjandrea CC BY-SA 4.0
Combine more points about readability.
Jul 15, 2023 at 16:22 history edited wjandrea CC BY-SA 4.0
Combine points about readability. Images can be zoomed ofc, but differently from text; I'll just remove that bit. I've never seen scaling problems myself. Remove "multiple images" point since it duplicates the "single screen" point. Add banner about duplicate points.
Jul 15, 2023 at 16:10 history edited wjandrea CC BY-SA 4.0
Clarify / simplify wording / remove tangents. Add points about CtrL+F and fixing typos. Move "volunteer" point to end as a sort of summary, like it was before. Move down two technical points that end users probably don't care about.
Apr 30, 2023 at 8:13 history edited Cody GrayMod
Rollback to Revision 31: I don't see how the reasons removed in the last edit were redundant.
Apr 30, 2023 at 7:16 history edited Cool guy CC BY-SA 4.0
removed unnecessary/repeated points
Apr 21, 2023 at 16:47 history edited khelwood CC BY-SA 4.0
no, emdashes don't need spaces around them
Apr 21, 2023 at 16:08 history edited Henke CC BY-SA 4.0
Minor edit, vise versa --> vice versa.
Feb 2, 2023 at 13:02 history edited Stef CC BY-SA 4.0
add "text can be zoomed in" argument in the list of arguments.
Jan 27, 2023 at 16:07 history edited miken32 CC BY-SA 4.0
this is an important reason and shouldn't be buried down the list
Nov 23, 2022 at 3:20 history edited Lakshya Raj CC BY-SA 4.0
added reason; reworded small phrase
Oct 31, 2022 at 11:32 history edited Zoe - Save the data dumpMod CC BY-SA 4.0
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Oct 31, 2022 at 11:01 history edited Zoe - Save the data dumpMod CC BY-SA 4.0
While we're simplifying points...
Oct 31, 2022 at 10:58 history edited Sabito CC BY-SA 4.0
Shortened this point
Oct 31, 2022 at 10:41 history edited Zoe - Save the data dumpMod CC BY-SA 4.0
Minor wording tweak
Oct 31, 2022 at 10:35 history edited Zoe - Save the data dumpMod CC BY-SA 4.0
Reduce the mostly unfounded "light mode blindness" garbage. Transparency goes both ways
Oct 31, 2022 at 10:30 history edited Zoe - Save the data dumpMod CC BY-SA 4.0
Add data dump reason, rewrite US-centric bullshit
Oct 27, 2022 at 18:04 history edited Abdul Aziz Barkat CC BY-SA 4.0
This is already mentioned above "Images cannot be interpreted by screen readers..."
Oct 27, 2022 at 17:51 history edited starballMod CC BY-SA 4.0
add note about accessibility tools like screen readers.
Jul 15, 2022 at 7:23 history edited iammilind CC BY-SA 4.0
Adding a point related to longer source code scenario
Jun 9, 2022 at 17:38 history edited Sabito CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jun 9, 2022 at 9:10 history edited Peter Mortensen CC BY-SA 4.0
(On yesterday's edit.) [<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dax90QyXgI&t=17m54s> <https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/late-hours>].
Jun 8, 2022 at 17:42 history edited Pshemo CC BY-SA 4.0
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Mar 10, 2022 at 7:16 history edited Nice18 CC BY-SA 4.0
Corrections
Jan 4, 2022 at 8:48 history rollback Nimantha
Rollback to Revision 11 - Revision 12 contains useful points (such as "best to do things...from the very beginning") but also some debatable ones (such closed posts "never do get re-opened" and "no mechanism" to "automatically notify those who voted to close" - posts can be followed and in any case, there's the reopen queue)
Jan 4, 2022 at 7:49 history edited martineau CC BY-SA 4.0
Added note at end about how questions closed for this reason often don't get re-opened.
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Jul 7, 2020 at 5:41 history edited Cody GrayMod CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jul 7, 2020 at 5:35 history edited Cody GrayMod CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jun 11, 2020 at 21:27 history edited Joel Coehoorn CC BY-SA 4.0
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Apr 26, 2018 at 22:53 history edited Georg Plaz CC BY-SA 3.0
With this edit the direct link to this answer can be posted as a comment in the review queue
Jan 9, 2018 at 6:25 comment added tripleee See also now idownvotedbecau.se/imageofcode and idownvotedbecau.se/imageofanexception which has an even fuller treatment of some aspects of why this is problematic.
Nov 14, 2017 at 6:01 history edited Pang CC BY-SA 3.0
Turn link into link (was from https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/285551/why-not-upload-images-of-code-on-so-when-asking-a-question/285557#comment472108_285557).
Nov 6, 2017 at 21:20 history edited Ken White CC BY-SA 3.0
Added info to proxy bullet
Nov 6, 2017 at 13:21 history edited Ken White CC BY-SA 3.0
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Nov 6, 2017 at 8:25 history edited user330315 CC BY-SA 3.0
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Apr 29, 2017 at 19:30 history edited Code-Apprentice CC BY-SA 3.0
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Feb 17, 2016 at 2:37 history edited Ken White CC BY-SA 3.0
Added bullet related to screen readers
Feb 6, 2015 at 23:45 vote accept Ashley Pieterse
Feb 6, 2015 at 23:03 history answered Ken White CC BY-SA 3.0
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