Since you have so many glowing endorsements and merit is being thrown around within your application thread, I would have to assume that there is something else preventing them from accepting you. I remember theymos talking about looking for sources that are active in obscure board, and maybe the boards you are active in already have a disproportionate amount of merit flowing within them.
I've thought about this too. I mainly read boards that are interesting for me, and indeed, they don't seem to have a lack of merit around there.
Then again, without any official word, we can only guess. I know
more people are waiting, and that list was only updated by theymos once, a few days after merit was introduced.
i gather that theymos approaches this new merit system in a fairly scientific manner.. and perhaps is only making a few changes to the number of source members, here and there, while having tools to attempt to monitor how the source members are distributing merits, too.
i recall that theymos made at least 3 and perhaps 4 additions to the number of source members, in batches. it seems that on day 1, he designated 35 sources, and then about a week later he had increased the number of source members to 57 and then about a month later there were 80 source members. Just today, when I clicked on the merit sources hyperlink, i noticed that currently, there are 79 sources ...
So, perhaps another batch change to the source members, at some point, but might include both the addition and the subtraction of source members.