Quote from: Stedsm on October 11, 2018, 04:05:42 PM

When we make a valuable post, we get rewarded in the form of "merits" here - a system injected to stop spam and encourage high quality comments. But, a question immediately struck to my mind and I thought I should definitely ask this as it's something really interesting.

When a user deletes their post/thread or when a mod deletes a user's posts/threads (least possiblity) due to low quality which has 1 or more merits given to it, what will happen to those merits? As we're aware that merits once given cannot be reverted back, will it still show in addition to the total merits in that user's profile?

Yes, if anyone create any topic on this forum and if anyone give any merits on their topic. Then if they delete their topic or if any moderator feel that their topic is not useful for us then if topic get deleted, their merit will show on their profile. Cause given merits cannot be reverted back.

Hope you understand sir

Quote from: mjglqw on October 11, 2018, 04:09:00 PM

The merit stays even if the topic/post with the merit gets deleted.

If you check my merit history, I received 2 merits from a reply I had on this deleted post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5031940.msg45873152#msg45873152

While the thread is already deleted for some reason(I don't remember what the thread was about), the merits are still on my profile.

Exactly what I'm talking about that if your created topic get any merits by anyone and if topic get deleted by any reasons then merits will be on profile.

Quote from: coin8coin8 on October 11, 2018, 04:33:16 PM

This is the usual trick of some merits abusers, they delete the post after sending the merits, and then everyone does not know the quality of this post, so you have no evidence to accuse the abuse.
I tend to treat 99% of deleted posts with the merit gets as abuse. Because 99% of the time, high quality posts will not be deleted.
If I find someone(Usually those has only 1 merit) has merit, but I can't find the post when it gets merit, I think that merit is suspicious.

You are right sir. If I'm not wrong So many Bitcointalk user following this way to get merits by wrong way. They create low quality topic to get merits from their friends who have merits and after getting their merits from others persons they deleted their topic. I think we should be careful about this type of merits abuse.

Quote from: Jet Cash on October 11, 2018, 05:04:51 PM

I believe that merits on a deleted post should be burnt, regardless of the reason for the deletion. The associated sMerits should also be reduced if they have not been spent.

I also agree with you sir. If we get this rules then it will be very good way to stop merits abuse. But I think for getting this rules we need to wait so many days, months or years