This is all theymos's fault, with his ridiculous 50 merits per user per month limit. As I have been unable to award you with nearly as many merits as you deserve, I have instead
awarded you the
Vulpine Order of Merit while keeping records of your meritorious posts since then. You currently have
69 pending merits for posts dating back over a month (and an unclaimed bonus prize), which will be awarded on a set schedule to avoid running into the 50 merits per 30 days limit (again). Your quoted post has already been scheduled to receive 12 merits in 9 days, though you are likely to have made even more meritorious posts during that time, so you are unlikely to ever receive all of your pending merits.
I'll tell you what: if/when you reach 100 pending merits, I'll promote you to
Knight of the Vulpine Order of Merit. Until then, I fully endorse all
current and future members of the
Vulpine Order of Merit as merit sources, and hope that theymos recognises their outstanding contributions to the forum.