Left-Hand Frame Question About The Forum?

I didn't know where else to put this. Usually at the left-hand side with all the frames is a listing of the titles of recent threads. Now with these new auctions underway, it takes up all the space. Some members (like me) are here not to sell but to learn and input knowledge about our past-time. Couldn't there be an option for members to collapse certain frames such as auctions and pull down other frames such as topics about coins? I understand that the forum doesn't work for free and relies on traffic in one way as opposed to another, but there should be an option. I most probably won't buy coins from the internet, period. Now I must scroll through every forum's general over-arching topic. I'm not nagging or anything, but I would like the option.