Yesterday, I check the profile and merit history of a certain member to see if he/she is abusing the merit system or not and saw that one of his/her posts that got merited is (Deleted/Off-limits/Ignored). I also checked mine and also found the same thing to a merit that I sent to a specific user.
I am assuming that the thread of that posts got deleted but what if a user posts something then he/she merits it with his high ranking account and immediately after that, he deletes that post in the account where he posts that in. So we will no longer be able to see if that post is merit worthy right?
I've also seen one of those last week its a newbie account and already received 5 merits, one of those merited posts is deleted the rest is posted on a mega spam thread. I've reported the spam posts that got merited to our moderators except for the one that's been deleted. This thing should be fixed if a post is deleted either by the moderator or the poster the merit should also be deleted because it can be possibly use on for merit abuse. If a spam post is merited and then deleted there would be no proof of merit abuse.