Question: I just noticed a question that had two different numbered lists with different numbers but both were rendered as "1". Screen shot:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1MsGQ.png)

Is this supposed to be happening?

Answer: 
Yes, it's supposed to be happening: – that's how Markdown [defines it](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list):

> 
> It’s important to note that the actual numbers you use to mark the list have no effect on the HTML output Markdown produces.
> 
> 
> 

It's probably one of the more debated features of Markdown, but it's indeed thusly defined in the “spec” (scare quotes because the Markdown spec is more of a “description of behaviour” than an actual specification).
This is by design per the markdown spec. Those are two unconnected lists.

You can however do this

```
1. List Item

   or

2. List item

```

1. List Item

or
2. List item