HN Meta: Highly rated off-topic comments dominating discussion

One thing that I've been noticing lately has been highly rated, off topic comments with lots of replies floating to the top of a discussion. Because they have lots of replies, the on topic discussion gets pushed way down the screen. These are good comments and good discussion; but they're off topic and hide comments discussing the actual article at the bottom the screen. Is there anything we can do about it?

examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11266796, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11262239