I don't believe it is a bug in the usual sense. My first guess is that the reputation table is not Hausdorff. There is a similar example in Munkres Topology about how the Hausdorff condition really is needed in the definition of a smooth manifold.

Also, we cannot be sure Andy Putman is Hausdorff.

I'm getting the same thing. So the effect is at least 45 minutes robust. It only seems to be this one case on pages 1-2 --- e.g., Jim (rep=5031, 5 silvers, 28 bronzes) does not appear at the top of page 3.

Andy might have two accounts with the same name and exactly the same rep. He keeps one on the 1st page and another on the 2nd, so that it's difficult to spot his evil genius.

Later Edit: how do we know he is using his power for evil?

Wow, nice catch!

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.

I just logged on, clicked on Users first and saw how Andy and Franz were now separate by 20 points. My guess is that the first (evil) Andy got two votes overnight and the names corrected when the first one happened. Overnight in the sense of California. So perhaps Bruce saw what I saw, but an hour earlier than I did.

It is also possible that Andy and Franz are in a cabal, part of their mission is to vote up Gerry Myerson.

I have done Bruce a disservice.

In my last comment last night, initially I suggested that we have somebody upvote something of Andy's and see what happened. Then I thought that wasn't funny and tended to curb the illusion, so I edited to what is there now. Then it hit me that "power" was better than "powers" but I was in bed.

I don't expect anything, but while matches at the high end of reputation are not so common, there should be page after page of usernames with rep 1, so I will check that.

EDIT: 100 points currently at about page 45, 1 point starts page 94, in between there are many scores with several pages worth such as 11. No sign of repeats. I didn't see how to go to a page number I type in, perhaps there is none, or none for my browser. One user with exactly 2 points, not sure how to accomplish that. And the username was 002.

I think I have a vague memory of that individual. He also deleted all his comments. In two of the questions he asked you can find a clue to his identity from the comments other people left.

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.

I believe that 002 deliberately got their score to 2. I don't know the full details of how it worked, but I noticed at the time that the user, after deleting all unaccepted answers, community wiki-ing all posts, and awarding massive bounties on questions, for a short time had 1 reputation. My guess is that a downvote was placed, bounties put the reputation to 1, and the downvote was removed to bring the reputation up to 2, but again I don't know exactly how it worked. All of the user's comments were also deleted, the name was changed to 002 (it had formerly been the user's real name), profile information was removed, and the user stopped contributing.

Edit: Oops, this is somewhat redundant after Willie Wong's post.

It was Leonid, although I don't remember his last name. It seemed like he just got PO'd about something and left forever.

The sinister "phase 2" of my plans now can begin...

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

@Andy: so I have to upvote you every time I want to see Franz's profile (like I just did!) ? That's neat (-:

Has anyone ever seen Franz and Andy in the same place at the same time?

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.