Ah. Well, I hate the idea of showcasing lower rep nodes on the Best Nodes list just because some of the best nodes are clustered together. Might as well call it the "Next Best Nodes" list. The ten best threads (so long as the meaning of "best" was satisfactory) would be far more interesting to me. It would probably be more interesting to me than Best Nodes if it were implemented well.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

So how about replacing sets of more than two "Best Nodes" from the same thread with single entry of "Node Title(thread)"? That way you'd immediately see which threads contain interesting discussion, as well as have more space for individual high-scoring nodes.

my %threadhash;

sub build_best_nodes_list
  my @nodes = get_list of relevant nodes_sorted_by_xp_descending();
  my @found;
  foreach my $node ( @nodes )
  {
    last if @found > 10;

    unless ( defined $threadhash{$node->{op}->{title}} )
    {
      push @found, $node->{op};
      $threadhash{$node->{op}->{title}} = 0
    }

    $threadhash{$node->{op}->{title}}++;

    return @nodes;
}
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