Please let us show a small icon/graphic in the tag excerpt

Question

I know that the tag excerpts are prime real estate, but I think it would be nice if we had the option to add a small product icon/graphic to the excerpt.

Here's how it looks now:

And here's what I was thinking:

To make the tag wiki excerpts uniform, you could have us upload an image separately (like: "Choose the excerpt image, no larger than 80px"), rather than letting us put the image in the markdown - this way, you don't have to modify the "no markdown in excerpts" rule.

I would also think a size constraint would make sense - in my example above, I used an 80x80 icon (which only adds a single line to the excerpt, not using up much extra space). For cases where there is no icon, you could use a muted version of the site icon as a placeholder (or just a blank, white image).

Answer 1

Generally, I agree. However, I just want to point out something I noticed in the last paragraph:

For cases where there is no icon, you could use a muted version of the site icon as a placeholder (or just a blank, white image).

I'd prefer if there was no image at all so that it looks how it currently does. Using the site icon or a blank image takes up valuable screen space that is better served by having no icon at all.

Answer 2

I disagree that users should be able to do this.

I really like the mockup, but I think this is a far better opportunity for for-profit advertising than for users to add images (aka free advertising).