There seems to be a race condition or caching issue when rendering questions and answers on a page, wrt looking up a user's reputation.

A few minutes ago, I browsed to McAfee blocking PDFs on Super User, and noticed that the user (who had answered his own question) was listed as having 6 rep in the question but 1 rep in the answer:


I'm guessing another user upvoted the question at almost the same time that I loaded the page.

Is this a display glitch, or is the user merely in a superposition of states?

closed as too localized by Pops, jonsca, Toon Krijthe, yhw42, David Fullerton Aug 8 '12 at 15:01


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    They have different user IDs. So it's not the same account. – Mysticial Aug 2 '12 at 3:55
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    Note that if an answer comes from the same account as the question, the answer's user has the same (in this case, blue) highlighting as on the question. – balpha Aug 2 '12 at 7:36

Not impossible. They're actually two different users with the same name and apparently IP/email. They should be merged.

Meet John B (149405) and John B (149746).

  • Looks like you're right. That's the first thing I thought, but I thought I checked it.... – Mechanical snail Aug 2 '12 at 3:59

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