A more viable and reasonable solution, imo, would be to deduct merits from a user's profile/account if they have got them in a self-moderated thread, and their post got removed by the creator of the thread.
I suggested something similar before, but I said it should be done even for deleted posts from moderators, but since we are discussing this issue, I think it's at least a good solution for this problem.
I'll only provide one counter-argument: what if a topic starter goes crazy and wipes everything? Yes, I'm thinking about what Ratimov did:
I noticed Ratimov has been deleting content from his own topics, after which he must have reported it and Mods deleted the topics (in that post I linked 58 topics).
Speculation is this is to hide traces of his past plagiarism, but I can't know his reasons for sure. The timing is at least peculiar after
his DT1-status was questioned again.
He now also deleted 6 of my posts from his self-moderated topics, and deleted all other posts from others users too.
I find it utterly disrespectful to do this on a forum. It also means I never want to post in any of his self-moderated topics again, so Ratimov is now on my Ignore list.
Ratimov - 2 Years on Bitcointalk + Giveaway !!!: 69 posts, 46 Merits earned.
6k Merit Club. When is Legendary ?: 74 posts, 12 Merits earned.
Here's another forum suggestion:
Some users turned the title of their posts (or more likely: topics) into something that can't be clicked. You'll have to look at the page source to find the link now. Even if it's empty, clicking the link would at least show the topicID, which allows to look it up on external archives.
Would it be possible to make
something clickable? The post number, the data, or even the "/"?