User blog comment:Dopp/New Profile Design Now Live Across All Wikis/@comment-732225-20110818215117/@comment-1656630-20110818222547

Just to be clear: the default blank state is only as tall as the avatar. If you're seeing it taller than that, chances are you're looking at your own view of your own profile, which is not what others see. Hope that helps. (And yep, i do hear the "too much whitespace" feedback in general.)