OK, here's something to clean up reaped items somewhat from Perl News but leave them accessable. Replace the jquery URL with the right path to your copy (which you can obtain from jquery.com). The commented-out chunk of code shows how you could completely replace the title row in question rather than just twiddling its display (you also could do something similar to my other example and append them to the bottom of the enclosing table instead). 

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://example.com/js/jquery-1.2.3
+.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function pm_clean_news( ) {
  // Perl News node id is 23771
  $( "body#id-23771 a[href*=?node_id=52855]" ).each( function( idx ) {
    // tr > td > this a
    var containing_ele = this.parentNode.parentNode;

    // Remove following tr
    $(containing_ele).next().remove();

    // Change CSS properties
    $(containing_ele).removeClass( 'hilight' );
    $(containing_ele).css( 'background-color', '#eeffee' );
    $(containing_ele).css( 'margin-bottom', '5px' );

    /*
    var reaped_title = $( "td:first-child a:first-child", containing_e
+le )[0];
    $(containing_ele).replaceWith( '<tr><td colspan="3"><a href="'
                                   + $(reaped_title).attr('href') + '"
+>'
                                   + $(reaped_title).text()
                                   + '</a></td></tr>' );
    */
  });
}

$(document).ready( function () {
  pm_clean_news();
});
</script>

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In reply to Free Nodelet Hack: Re: Reaped Nodes are Cluttering up some of the Sections by Fletch
in thread Reaped Nodes are Cluttering up some of the Sections by Argel

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