The weirdest case here is
xandry, a staff member with 59,26% DeletedOverSent sMerit ratio, but highest value in absolute terms (288 sMerits in deleted posts). Should be a false positive right?
As you noted,
xandry is the most special case, who was also identified in the analysis of
Global structure of merit networks. You can find him/her in the second last figure. It might be the case that he/she is focusing on some very active threads and evaluating several users posted there, and those threads are deleted recently. However, it is not clear why he/she needs to send merit so frequently (see below) and I cannot read deleted posts so it remains unclear to me.