I think if a post is deleted for whatever reason then people should lose that merit as well. I think some people are purposely deleting their merited posts after they've received merit for it for whatever reason. Anyone can just merit some random trash post then delete it to get rid of the evidence. People could also just copy content then deleted the post once it's been merited. It's ripe for abuse if the merit stays after the post has gone.
100% agree with you, hillariousetc. It can be used as what you have mentioned in your post, and as far as i know only moderator can look into deleted posts (cmiiw) so it will be hard for people to help monitoring other members activity. There should be an automated archive for deleted posts that have merit on it.
我被刪除了好幾個都不知道問題出在哪
Seriously?
Otherwise, it can be cut off.
It is fair - good posts were considered meritorious by people who didnt have enough smerits. Therefore these posts were not merited.
But then imagine the following scenario:
Many people are rightfully given merit by someone whose post is later deleted. Then those people suddenly rank down. And in fact, what if someone had a highly merited post that was deleted? If that individual had given merit to many people, that's a lot of lost merit from the chain.
You have to consider all these edge cases. :/
Is it possible to have an automated archive of deleted posts that have merits on it?