Once a post has been merited, then the post should be locked and can neither be deleted, nore modified.  @theymos might want to consider making that small modification to the merit system.

Ironically, the current admins of BPIP ( @ibminer and @suchmoon ) have chosen to skewer the merit ranking to include only the earned merits in their ranking system, *but* are happy enough to benefit from the merits they were gifted when the merit system was created.  It over inflates both the rank on BPIP and their egos.