Question: There have been a few ID questions lately that boil down to a youtube link or an image. To me, these aren't of high enough quality to keep on the site. Examples:

* [what spider based movie is this scene from](https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/10611/what-spider-based-movie-is-this-scene-from)
* [id this bollywood movie](https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/10584/can-anyone-identify-this-bollywood-movie-circa-1980s)
* [which episode of lost girl is this gif from](https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/7959/which-episode-is-the-tick-tick-boom-image-captured-from)(closed)

Answer: 
I find the dislike of image/video-only identify (ID) questions to be baffling. The accepted type of ID questions is way more prone to issues. A description-only ID question will have:

* Incorrectly-remembered details
* Lack of details (either vague or not-mentioned)
* Can only be properly verified by the question asker

That last one is the most damning in my opinion, and is what I think makes image/video ID questions better. It is possible to take a screenshot of a film and show that it's an exact match for the image/video in the question. It is impossible to do this with a text-only ID question. This means answers are independently verifiable as a correct or incorrect, which removes a great deal of the issues that surround ID questions as a class.
This discussion may be getting to a root solution: **no ID questions**.

Because there is so much subjectivity inherent in ID questions, it seems to me that they should not be here. They are questions allowing people to benefit from the knowledgable users who use Movies and TV-- but they're not specifically adding to the quality of the site.

We're supposed to be about experts answering expert questions. Being an expert in Google Fu doesn't make you an expert in Movies and TV.

Furthermore, these questions are definitively localized. They essentially boil down to: "I'm having this problem (I can't remember the name of this movie), here's what I know (it has this one line/I remember this one scene), can anyone help (what is this from?)?" Other Stack sites close questions like this all the time, and without hesitation.

My only weakness for these questions is that it introduces new users to the community, which-- if they get what they want-- may pique their interest enough to stay and become a part of what we're doing here.

But is that really enough? Is it really worth the noise, the debate, the distraction? We could be asking truly challenging questions that require research and explanation. Instead we're searching for ' "your shoelaces are untied"+movie+1980s'in Google.

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To @DForck42's original question: the kind of ID questions wherein the OP provides little more than an image or YouTube clip should be given the now common first comment along the lines of "can you provide more detail?" then closed within a reasonable amount of time (say 1-2 weeks) if nothing more is provided.