Three things: in-thread search, hover text, and topic title mandate.
1. In-thread search option to search within the thread itself. It would help so that one does not have to say the following: I'm sorry if these suggestions have already been posted and similar suggestions made afterwards are disliked. If any of my suggestions have been posted already, consider this a seconding.
2. On-hover text, mouse-over text, alt. text, title text, comment, or whatever that other boards have that allows previewing a thread (original post) by placing the mouse cursor over the thread title on the board overview and waiting until a text box pops up which is composed of the text of the first post. This is related to suggestion three.
3. Instate a rule that topic titles should be more descriptive than "(need) help" which I've seen (and made) all too often in Min/Max boards. This encourages better thread design. With the second suggestion implemented, this is much less if not totally unnecessary (except for those who do not give a good gist of their need in the amount of text that would be previewed in a hover-over text box). As provoked by
this topic.
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4. Change quotation template such that the double quotation marks are 66s instead of backwards 99s and add 99s to the right side.