Gazeta
Theymos or Cyrus will only act once there will be a massive amount of merit is exchanged. I don't think for 1 or 2 merits, admin will interfere and remove.
This is true. That's why I said it happens only in rare occasions... And anyway it was not OP's case
This doesn't mean the system can be abused, nor that it is abused. Only 1 person (theymos) or 2 (theymos and Cyrus) can delete merits. This happens only in very rare occasions though.
I can't remember where I saw theymos was talking about this. Without blatant case, such interfere is unlikely to happen.
A certain case when it happened was last year, when someone asked to have all merits removed:
hallo ,
excuse me for disturbing, how to do it, so that my merits no longer exist, or delete my merits please. but I just want to keep my pseudonym/alias .
thank you, no debate just action.
Don't ask me why he wanted such thing
But his wish was fulfilled. I see though he received merits later and that's ironic.
They are asking why it was removed.. not whether they deserve it or not. Stop jumping to conclusions people.. and being so patronizing to those asking questions.
And I answered to the question. I wasn't patronizing. If a merit was deleted (although it wasn't), why would that happen? Maybe because of a bug, because the user asked himself (as in the above mentioned case) or... maybe the post did not deserve the merit. Can you see other reasons...?