Just what we need, more back door shady ways to decimate people's accounts with zero public accountability. I am sure nothing bad will result from this...
This was a bug....and has been corrected. There doesn’t appear to be any policy in place removing merit.
That's a bug.
The merit number is a cached value derived from the merit ledger. I think that the number got out of sync and weird here due to a bug which existed for a short time last week. The number would've corrected itself the next time this user received any merit.