The original poster, elopio, is experiencing an issue where pinning topics on their Discourse forum causes their avatar to appear on all topics, rather than the original author or latest poster. Moin suggests two possible solutions: deleting the automatic post created when a topic is pinned, or using a plugin to display the author of the first post. elopio appreciates the suggestions and prefers the first solution, despite losing some curating traceability.
These days I’m actively curating the topics on our discourse to help with discoverability, so I’m marking the main content written by my team as pinned globally. When I do that, my head appears on all the topics in the front page, which looks a little scary 
I would like the original author or the latest poster to appear instead. Many more faces in the main page looks more welcoming.
Does this make sense to others? Can we have it please? 
After pinning a topic you are usually the latest poster, because of the small post at the bottom which says that you pinned the topic.
Thanks @Moin.
I like the solution of deleting the pinned message, because then it will show the latest reply.
I think it looses some nice traceability about who is curating the lists, but that’s not too important for me now.
