GM viewing as a Player
I think it's actually been a couple of these threads since this has been mentioned -- for a generic, "Just not the GM" view, you can log out of RPoL and then look at the thread. The thread has to be public for that, of course; if it's not, you'd have to set it to Group 0, log out, check whatever you wanted to look at, log back in, and put it back to the right Group, which is both troublesome and potentially risky depending on why it's in a private Group... but it does only take a few moments.