I finally figured out the cause for this issue. It is related to the recent change to allow people to be able to submit multiple scores per map. Since that is the case, the thread that Bara- and Kao were referring to is not about the same issue that this thread is about.
When the “multiple score” update happened, there was a glitch where people would be able add too many ranks to their profile stats by setting many different scores with different mod combinations on an individual map. The change log said that this was fixed, which I believed for a while, but, it turns out to only have been partially fixed.
Here is an example of what was fixed and what seems to have been missed: if you get an SS rank on a map and then get another SS rank on that same map, no matter what mod combination used, your SS count will no longer increase because that has been fixed, however, if you get an A rank on a map and then get SS ranks on that same map with certain (most) different mod combinations they will all be counted towards your profile stats. Even stranger, not only will the SS rank count continue to rise in this situation, the A rank count will continue to fall. This explains the negative A rank counts on AnimeAlex321’s profile and more notably on the profile stats for a large amount of current top osu!mania players.
I will now detail the process through which I was able to consistently recreate this issue.
1. Pick an easy map you haven’t played before and get a nomod A rank on it. (Rank counts: SS+0 A+1)
2. Get an SS rank on that same map with HR (I used PF, but I doubt that matters). (Rank counts: SS+1 A+0)
3. Get another SS rank on that same map but this time with DT. (Rank counts: SS+2 A-1)
4. Get as many other SS ranks on that same map with other mod combinations that haven’t been used yet. Not all mod combinations seem to work for this, but most do. I’m pretty sure I used DTSO(PF) and even just the addition of SO counted as another SS rank. (Rank counts: SS+x A-(x-1))
This detail is probably not too important but, I used the Easy and Normal difficulties of
https://osu.ppy.sh/b/1180148 to figure most of this out. It is a good map to try to replicate this issue with if you have the time.
If you can’t replicate this issue with the directions provided, I will try to explain it better with another post. If you can replicate it, please post about your success here in this thread. That would help a lot with getting this issue fixed faster. Doing that is important because I really think that this issue should be fixed and the profile rank counts recalculated as soon as possible because anyone who cares about their profile’s rank counts in the first place are going to care about how accurate those counts are.
Thank you for reading my post.
Edit: Eps seems to be one of the most effected by this issue. Check out his rank counts.
https://osu.ppy.sh/u/6511370 I will let him know about this thread.