I think that when somebody adds some code to their question on Stack Exchange, in the question preview you shouldn't be able to actually read it, but instead you should see just "[CODE]" or something similar.
An image of the current behavior:
As you can see, this takes away most of the question, and makes it much harder to see what's being asked or what the post is really about.
You could get a better preview and idea of the question if you didn't see illegible code (because of the format it is very difficult to read at a glance!).
You could instead see something like this: