I'm sure it can be fixed to get rid of the money for a thread deletion...
but the merging is pretty worthless, because they originally made 2 posts... (I use a double post mod that makes extra replies go to the first reply if they are trying to double post. and they get money for each one, I think that is fair. but why am i telling u this...)
i'd help if i wasn't working on a ton of other things...