Somewhat related.. I'll go ahead and ask a lot here and outline what I think could be an ideal situation. I'd love to see collapsed threads (yes, I do understand the need for them, especially when they get very long/in-depth) be user-expandable by some ajax-y method. Unnfortunately, I don't see any good way of implementing this across all styles. I'd also like to see the limit at which threads auto-collapse be a user-defineable variable, of course within reason. The default could be left relatively small, with increased ease of expanding them.