What I meant, for the first question, was that many other people have white space as well.
Question posts are formatted by the operating system differently than answer posts.
On the thread, question posts are formatted to have a minimum of eleven (11) lines with specific margins. There is one white line above the first text line and one each above and below the timestamp. If a poster only posts one line the there will be six (6) lines of whitespace before the time stamp. Two lines of text will result in five (5) lines of whitespace. Etc. There will always be at least one line of whitespace before and after the timestamp.
Answer posts are formatted to have a minimum of 5 lines, with the same margins as the question post. So, there can be up to four (4) lines of whitespace in the text zone without the post intentionally adding more. Again, there will always be at least one line of whitespace before and after the timestamp.
These margins and specifications approximate optimum readability aesthetics. For both Question and answer posts, excess carriage returns (CR) are truncated unless they are appended by one or more characters.
On the questions index page, question posts are truncated with a “read more” followed by one, two or three lines of whitespace, deepening on how many lines of text are in the post. Here, the allocated space is uniform and fixed for each question post.
On the answers index page, the answer is presented in its entirety. The allocated space is dynamic for each answer post, with a minimum fixed size for short posts. This variability is part of the nature of the answer index and isn’t distracting unless a post has irregular formatting or excess white space. The posts become very distracting when there are more than four (4) sequential lines of whitespace — This is especially distracting on the answer’s index page.
...this answers your second question: For the second question, even if there are seven lines, again, is it that big of a deal?
For the third question, if you don't want to know the answer, why even look at the question then?
In this case I didn’t look at the question, only the answer. I posted here because this was your most recent example of excess whitespace. It’s as simple as that.
Also, I didn't mean to sound arrogant, supercilious, and self-aggrandizing. If I sounded that way (simply because I added seven white spaces, I'm sorry. Like I mentioned before, I don't use much white space (one line at most) anymore).
That’s wonderful, JP; I’ll stop trolling you about it. 
