I just noticed on one of the merit searching websites that I use that it appears that merits are no longer counted for posts that get deleted.
Can you show an example? As far as I know, Merit stays when posts are deleted.
I only know of one case in which theymos returned 150 sMerit that was sent from a hacked account.
Unless it's a merit source that went rogue, in that case theymos already announced he's willing to undo all source Merit transactions. And that makes me even more curious to see an example.