@IBJoel, from a UI design perspective, one wants users to get as deep into the UI as possible with as few scrolls or hyperlinks as possible. Fixing the ARG issue by adding a separate box that takes up 25% more real estate...that is NOT a good UI design.

At the very least, please see if the developers can remove the line break/adjust the column width of "The following users liked this post" so that if 5 or fewer folks like a post, the space taken up is 1 line as opposed to 2.

Please pass these suggestions along to your development team.

EDIT: Team for your information why IB may be collecting/posting this info, normally software companies collect patterns (whether its sales patterns, site visit patterns/site click or like patterns). The collect this info then use it to push appropriate information (normally marketing) back to the user. For example, if Jen likes Joes stuff, and we push X marketing material to Joe, we should push to Jen too.

And, often they aggregate the data that's collected and sell it to a 3rd party. The more data they can link together, the better 'story' or insight they can glean into us. The internet isn't free. Companies make BIG money selling our collected data to aggregators, which they in turn sell this data to product companies, which then use this info as a potential client listing, and they push marketing material on us.