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.
But what if it is your own reply? We can delete it.
If it is awarded before getting deleted then I think there is no way we could recover the merit sent back to the sender.
As far as I know, you can't merit a deleted post (I didn't test it though).
Well, technically yes, you can't merit a post if it is gone already because it is deleted or am I missing your point here? Because I got confused on how you will test it tho.
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Sooner or later, those abusers will run out of sMerits to send to their ring of accounts and eventually we will encounter those accounts. There are a lot of reports for merit abuse in the forum and a lot of people has been banned, so you don't have to worry.