I thought about giving some merits to replace the ones you lost but touching wet paint when you know it's wet is a pretty silly thing to do.
You can't replace it once it's gone, can you? - unless theymos reverse the merit manually. Meanwhile I do not need it too. Yes, it was silly but it's the curiosity lol. Glad I am not stupid enough to pull a trigger to see how it feels to die 🤪
By the way, I think we have a possible solution here to stop it. Not sure if this will get theymos's attention.
Only theymos can return the merit but I'm not sure if he will or not and I don't think it's worth the time pursing and you should just accept the loss of merits and move on in this case. However, it would be helpful if the bug was fixed so it doesn't happen again in the future so you can keep pushing for a change/fix if you wish but it certainly wouldn't be on my list of priorities (for either you or theymos).