Using DdmrDdmr's
Bitcointalk Merit Dashboard, I did a rough analysis of all merits sent to Deleted topics/replies. It should be noted that this database counts all merits sent to the Investigations board as "Deleted" (are there other reasons why they would be put in the "Deleted" category?).
Out of 3997 users who had Deleted merits, the average amount of times sent per user was 1.91, with the standard deviation being 10.5.
Here is a list of the top 20 users by total number of instances:
Name Rank Instancesxandry Staff 640
OgNasty Donator 73
suchmoon Legendary 60
frodocooper Staff 55
bones261 Legendary 54
dbshck Staff 46
Vod Legendary 44
Foxpup Legendary 41
paxmao Sr. Member 39
LoyceV Legendary 37
Vadi2323 Legendary 34
chimk Sr. Member 29
vapourminer Legendary 29
LFC_Bitcoin Legendary 25
o_e_l_e_o Hero Member 24
The Pharmacist Legendary 23
DdmrDdmr Sr. Member 22
deisik Legendary 22
EFS Staff 22
DarkStar_ Legendary 20
If you arrange members (with 10 instances or more) by the ratio of instances to Total Sent Merits, a different picture emerges:
Name Rank Instances Tot. sMerit RatioVangardo Sr. Member 17 31 0.55
fxpc Sr. Member 10 21 0.48
xandry Staff 640 1450 0.44
deisik Legendary 22 74 0.30
ImHash Hero Member 14 90 0.16
dumbtool45 Sr. Member 12 81 0.15
Parodium Sr. Member 10 97 0.10
ace4549 Sr. Member 11 111 0.10
fruit Legendary 11 118 0.09
foserfox Legendary 13 141 0.09
Vadi2323 Legendary 34 390 0.09
TimeTeller Hero Member 12 187 0.06
pawel7777 Legendary 10 193 0.05
richardsNY Legendary 11 217 0.05
OgNasty Donator 73 1742 0.04
o_e_l_e_o Hero Member 24 775 0.03
ebliever Legendary 10 327 0.03
frodocooper Staff 55 1878 0.03
vapourminer Legendary 29 1335 0.02
The Pharmacist Legendary 23 1215 0.02
If you'd like me to give you the stats or ratio for any given member (based on my data set), let me know and I'll post it in this thread.
I apologize for the ugly formatting; don't know how to fix that except by investing a lot of time into it or else posting images of the spreadsheet.