I have almost no experience with javascript, widgets and scripts myself, so I'd like to ask someone to make this useful chat addition a reality.

(Original Meta.SE feature request)

The idea is to detect starred messages with only image links and move them to a separate section under the text-only starred messages (links to non-images included):

Additionally, it would be cool to see the number of stars an image got on hover, and maybe customize thumbnail size and number of rows.

This feature will be useful for all chat rooms that regularly have interesting images posted.