Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-4533965-20140613172406/@comment-20015702-20140614071426

PsychoShark wrote: This is a bit of a sensitive topic. I highly doubt people do this sort of thing simply for the sake of getting more edits. I'm pretty sure they do it just because they like pictures.

It's like when you're a little kid and you come across a book that doesn't have any pictures in it. A book that doesn't have any pictures in it is boring, but you can't just 'change' the book so that it does have pictures in it. But when you're a Wiki editor things are different. When you find a page that doesn't have many pictures in it, you have the power to change it, the power to add in pictures to your hearts content.

My point here is that most people would find a page without many pictures in it to be 'boring', and in an effort to make it less 'boring' they add picture after picture after picture. Image flooders seldom have ill intent.

I agree that it's a nuisance having to scroll through a tower of images and that pages should be 'cleaned out' when there are too many, but I don't think that any users should be punished for adding too many images. I don't think anyone mentioned any sort of punishment for image flooders, Blue only stated to tone it down on pages.
 * And efforts to make the page look less boring shouldn't matter since as this is an encyclopedia, the pages should show quality over quantity and carry precise information, even if images available are less.