Move Votes block below status box to get back real estate for questions

Question

The large grey block used to display "Votes" uses a lot of horizontal screen real estate.  The same information could easily be worked into the layout, without using any more space, by moving it below the "answered" box.

Right now, the "Votes" block uses a full 68 pixels of width, always taken up, just to display this information.  Moving this below the Dark boxes provides the exact same information and saves a huge amount of real estate.  In fact, when the Forums chooser is open, only 556 pixels are allocated to the actual "text" of a question.  Removing these unneeded 68 pixels would effectively add 12% of width to the actual content, without losing any information from the main view.

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Reed Copsey, Jr. - http://reedcopsey.com
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Answer 1

Note that, when creating this mockup, I did not change the size or font of the "3 Votes" and "0 Votes" - these are exactly the same size as the current design, and, in my opinion, just as noticeable and prominent as they were originally.

 

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Answer 2

Related (but different) request: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/33f5dd3a-04ea-449d-af1b-92d938d26ee7/move-answers-right-when-viewing-details-of-messages-in-list-views

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