Go to the Splintertalk home page right now. 7/15 of the "popular post" spots are being taken up by Splinterland/Peakmonsters, and the top 3 spots are all taken by Splinterland.
I get that they can't really do much about it, since their posts would naturally gravitate towards the top, but I think that it's really reducing the discoverablility of other posts.
I know that there are other ways to see posts, like sorting by recent, like you probably did to find this post.
But is there another way to change the layout of the site? I go to the front page and I see the same 10 posts that I've already upvoted.
And most of the time, I'm viewing it from my phone, which means I basically never scroll past the popular posts.