The other monks have pointed you in the direction of an explainaion. However, if you think RavingGoat's 3590 experience points over 740 days with 4 writeups is puzzling, you should check out Paco who has managed to garner 650 points in just 1 hour 14 minutes with 1 writeup. Truly an inspiration to XP whores everywhere us all.

Update: Out of curiosity (and without checking to see if anyone has done this before, which surely someone has) here are the average numbers of days to achieve different levels of monktitude (starting from scratch) if one is simply to login everyday and cast all of one's votes:

Level    Days
2         40
3         63
4         81
5         101
6         127
7         177
8         234
9         309
10        398
11        498
12        607
13        707
14        861
15        1061
16        1274
17        1524
18        1877
19        2322
20        2953
21        3753
22        4706
23        5615
24        6484
25        7318
26        8118
27        8887
28        9628
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