It has now been a year since I originally posted about the profile benjapin, who at the time had 35 awards on his All tab and 138 on the Awards tab. Since that time, the disparity has ballooned:
At this rate, by July 2021 benjapin will have more awards than official lists.
This is not an isolated case. Of the top 500 profiles ranked by awards, over 150 don’t belong there. While the results of this bug are most common among dormant profiles, there are some active ones that display the same behavior (like users “auxt” and “codespoti”).
Please note these users have done nothing wrong, it is the website itself generating the phantom awards.