So @IsaacKing, the feature that I mentioned is now live: The reason you were seeing this is because I was showing the Original Post and the “Accepted Answer” at the top of each page of the thread, and because if those posts were very long, I didn’t want to create a huge amount of scrolling just to get to the “new content” of the thread. See Pinned [O] Post for discussion of that feature.
Since your post here, though, I have changed it to only show the Original Post if there is also an Accepted Answer. So you won’t see these collapsed posts on every thread, only ones which have an accepted answer - and there, the intent is to set off the OP and the Answer from the rest of the thread, to clearly show the former as the context of the latter. I’ll be the first one to admit that my user interface design skills are…non-existent, so I’m open to other suggestions - or even better, volunteers - to make it better.
Now that this is all officially deployed, do you still think that collapsing the OP and the Accepted Answer on the second, third etc pages of the thread is a bad idea? Is there a better way that we can display this information to make it more intuitive what’s going on?