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.
I only have one example because today was the first time that I had seen such a situation in which it seems that a merit had been given, and then the post was subsequently deleted which caused the merit to no longer be counted in the number received.
You can see it listed in the total merits received here (as 16), but the profile only has 15 merits credit because it appears that the merit of the deleted post was not counted towards current total of merits received.
https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?to=ThePunisher49X