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-====== An Empty Table ======
-[{{ :wiki:empty_table.png?nolink&200|List of good reasons to believe that the Earth is flat}}]
-**An Empty Table** is a table that has been drawn, but that has no content filled in.
-The properties of the empty table include height, width, number of rows, columns and styling. However, empty tables generally have no titles, since a title would depend on the content.
-Empty tables are extremely popular among people who need to make a table on a subject that they are ignorant about. An empty table is also great as a listing of ideas that you still did not think of.
-===== Criticism of empty tables =====
-[[J. N. Spoilsport]] argues that empty tables may be breeding grounds for offensive content, since theoretically anyone can write anything in them. [[Mr. Porridge]] counters that any given table has limited dimensions, which in turn limit the amount of content it can hold. Therefore, you cannot write **anything** in an empty table.
-"It is clear that if you have a small empty table, you cannot write a novel in it. This is fairly obvious. I have no idea how someone can think otherwise," - Mr. Porridge says.
-[[The Cave]] forum post in 2016 has commented on this by launching a project that would allow an Excel table to hold compressed text. That way, Mr. Porridge would be proven false.
-[[Dan Dindridge]] has summed up the whole exchange by pointing out that empty tables is something that "the public doesn't give a shit about".
-===== Additional notes =====
-It can be argued that empty tables can say more than intended. A person who has not yet filled out a table may seem smarter than she really is. Once the table is filled out, it would be clear she is a psychopath, or just a very bored diesel mechanic.
-This perception asymmetry of a person before and after they fill out a table is called an //empty table perception asymmetry//. It is a strictly professional term, although the professions that use this term are so specialized, and the terms they use are so narrow, that their width hardly exceeds that of a hair. As a result, nobody really ever refers to the //empty table perception asymmetry//, and laymen are advised against showing off their knowledge of the concept.
-===== Example =====
-{{:wiki:empty_table.png?nolink|}}

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