Opening People's responses

Is there a way to make people's responses opened so I could just scroll and read them rather than have to open them individially? As is stands now, I go to a forum then click on a subject, and then everyone's comments needs to be opened individually. But one time I followed a link, I think from Paul Phillips' site and the user comments were already opened and could be easily scanned and read. Thanks for the help is this is possible.