There are times when it would be helpful to be able to easily follow one member's posts in a thread. An example from today - if I were in the Virginia March Pick 3 thread and I wanted to view only Tang's posts in that thread, what I would like is a super-simple way to see only Tang's posts. I know this can be somewhat accomplished by clicking on the member's name then choosing "View recent posts," but what I'm picturing is a slicker feature where I could just, say, click on Tang's avatar and the site would re-render the thread with all other posts removed and only Tang's posts shown. Clicking again on the avatar would toggle the filtering and return the thread to its original state.
Another example - there are a lot of explanatory threads on the board where I only want to see the OP's posts. This feature would be very helpful for that task.
Another example - this feature would be handy for tracking your favorite predictor in a thread.
Another example - this feature could be used as a quick navigation tool for finding a user's post then by clicking again to see the posts that were made around the found post, a really simple straightforward way to navigate by context, the way they tell me the brain works.
Obviously, this is not a must-have, but it would be very useful. It might be the kind of board feature to include in premium memberships.
Thanks for reading!