Try shrinking the thread rating (lower right corner). I think its always been like that with quotes, cause the quote can't wrap around the thread rating.
It defaults to whatever you last set it to be. So if you shrink it down, next time you visit the site it will be the smaller version, no matter what the default.
You can have it shrunk be default btw
I will look at it again and see if I can figure a way to make it wrap with quotes.
There are two things we're talking about, default settings and user settings. If it's set to be small by default it'll always show as small until someone expands it. If the user expands it or makes it smaller, it will continue to show that way for them on subsequent visits or until they clear their cookies