I could possibly do that - part of the issue is that I wanted to keep the recent posts first so if people did want to check out posts the ones that were still in payout were most accessible. The first one of these posts was just a few days worth of upvotes and that one I ordered by least pending payout to most pending payout. By category would be interesting but I would have to sort each category by date and it would actually make a lot of the recent posts get buried farther down if they happened to fall in a category that was not one of the first categories featured in the post.
Hopefully going forward I don't wait 15 days between such posts. A few days to a week tops is what my goal was, obviously failed there. Thanks for the feedback! Cheers
Good to know the reason behind it anyways :) it's a good approach as well