something is wrong with payouts!
i see this in 'Estimated Position in Payout Queue' area:
"Less than 25 BTC ahead in queue, putting this user's payout in our next block"
but after 4 blocks the message is the same and i haven't seen any payment yet!
Payouts are fine. Open a ticket if you think otherwise for some reason.
after 4 blocks i received my payout!
but the estimated position sometimes is totally wrong!

Probably 1/4 of the posts in this thread are about the payout queue.
There are two rules: payouts have to be above a certain threshold, and the oldest eligible payouts are at the head of the line. The payouts always follow those rules, no software is broken, no shenanigans are perpetrated. These rules seem to be good rules.
When a slow machine that has not been paid out in a long time finally passes the threshold, it goes to the head of the payout and everyone else gets bumped lower by one.