It makes me wonder if the bug extends to applying a single upvote to Andy to both Andy and Franz.

You can verify that this isn't the case by looking at their reputation graphs and picking a very small window of time to see exactly where they've been getting their rep.

It seems that Franz has accepted an answer, thereby getting two points. Think of the sharks, Franz!

I figure there's about a dozen of us in this thread -- so about 10 Anton-downovtes each ought to do the trick.

Much more efficient way to do it is to flag posts as spam. A total of 12 spam votes on two non-CW posts (one flag on each from six users) does 224 points of damage. Then you're only 15 more downvotes away.

Edit: Andy's right. I should've just kept my mouth shut.

I also have a vague memory of a discussion on Meta on the distribution of of Rep score for the low numbers (say, < 50). Ah, here it is.

EDIT: And in fact, user 002 was discussed in that thread.

Then some minutes later I saw Cam's post and realize that something screwy is going on, and when I went back to look at the Users list, Franz has been revealed. So I am pretty sure Bruce managed to solve the puzzle before it became trivial.

@Bruce: how did you manage to figure that out?

So I guess the software has a bug if two people on the cusp of the page-turn have the same reputation?

@Will: Identity theft, in this case Franz', is a pretty good sign of evil.