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I see that you tried again, and your suggestion was approved this time.  But, please, when you see a non-inlined image like

[enter image description here][1]

don’t change it to

![image description](image URL)
change it to
[![image description][1]][1]
so a user can click on the image displayed in the Super User page and go directly to the image on i.sstatic.net.  If you break this down (by adding spaces):

[     ![ *image description* ] \[ 1 ]     ]  \[ 1 ]

you can see that it is the basic link markdown:

[     *link text*     ]  \[ *num* ]

where the link text is

![ *image description* ] \[ *num* ]
i.e., an image. 

This has been the default Markdown when you insert an image through the Super User / Stack Exchange GUI for nearly four years now.  Reference: Images should be automatically rescaled and the full size linked or put into a lightbox.

(Getting a little off-topic here: images can be used in lots of places where text can be used: e.g., in <kbd> Markdown (), superscripts (x) and subscripts (x).)

But do keep on looking at the image and inserting a description of it, as you did in the above edit.