I know some of y'all have chosen Collapsed Threads for your Default View since this minimizes load time for the initial view of the forum. However (engineering tradeoff) this also deprives you of what may be an important piece of information; who has been posting to a given thread. We all have developed preferences to whose posts we like to read; there may be some whose posts we consider a must read and others who we would not prefer to spend our time on. In Expanded Threads you can tell that a given thread is nothing but a discussion between your two favorite love to hate posters and you can give that thread a pass.