Quote from: mobilazy on August 14, 2018, 01:51:49 PM

Another option would be the removal of merit which will go back to the sender. But it's much harder to implement I guess. I agree that merit abuse went too far on this forum.

There are many reasons why the topic/post/reply got deleted (already discussed a thousand times):

Quote from: theyoungmillionaire on May 07, 2018, 07:35:32 AM

Deleted/Off-limits/Ignored on merit history can be of some reasons:
1.   You replied in a topic with low quality post but your reply has a Quality Post.
2.   You have a Quality Post topic, with so many OT reply.
3.   New forum guidelines can also be a factor. Like service merit are now being remove.

You cannot delete your own topic, only staff/moderators can do it. In terms of investigations for merit abuses, staff can still see their posts; we are just off-limits to see that board.

Given the above reasons, your option is not valid, because, based on experience I got some smerit sent to deleted post(s), which I think really deserved some merit on it. For example, I have merited one of Welshs reply and then a minute later the topic itself got deleted. You mean the merit I sent to Welsh will be debited and credited back to me? IMHO, that is kind of blurry suggestion. The reply is of quality. It will affect those posts with quality, but, at the wrong topic or affected by new forum implementation rules which only discussed on staff board. As discussed, merit is not moderated and investigating them is time consuming. It is the merit holder verdict on how they view quality post (which sometimes used as like stuff) it is up to them, abuse is a reality. It will soon be part of history, not all are merit source.