I am curios to know if merits can be deleted. From this
self moderated mega thread, the notice on it simply reads, "
This is a self-moderated topic. If you do not want to be moderated by the person who started this topic, create a new topic. (170 posts by 1 users with 9 merit deleted.)" Does this sentence in any way implies that merits can be deleted if the post by a user is removed?
This confusion can be removed with a simple change of positioning of the words.
The sentence is now "170 posts by 1 users with 9 merit deleted." it can be changed to "170 posts with 9 merit by 1 users deleted."
Or, to make it more clear and easily understandable, it can be "170 posts by 1 users (with 9 merits) deleted."
There is one more thing that can be a good addition for better readability and correction. the word "users" should be written "user(s)" so that it can be read user if it's 1, and users if it's more than 1, that "s" in the parentheses is an optional letter that one can read when necessary or skip when it's not.
I hope this can be helpful to remove confusions such as this.