Comparatively, this is somewhat of a new feature. ((I went away for a while, came back, there it was.)) My guess is that it has to do with posts at the end of a page. If someone makes a post and it's the last one on the page, then another person makes a post that starts a new page, there's always the chance the first person's post may not be read as others would jump to the most recent page when reading what they have missed.
Just my guess though. Admin-Sama should be able to tell us more.