By design in armagetronad, authenticated names with subdirectories in the authority are not equivalent to the name at the base authority. That means dlh@forums/human is considered a different ID when compared to dlh@forums. A few authorities (mis)use subdirectories (@ct, more…?), so I've gotten a few requests recently about how to keep accumulating stats when your authenticated name changes.
The solution is to use an ID that won't change. That won't make the people using @ct/(public, trial, junior, senior, leader, banned) happy, but that's how the game works right now. I did implement a partial-solution for those people on gridstats.com—you can view grouped stats for a collection of names (see the Aliases section). The grouped stats won't show up in any table comparing best/worst stats, because it's not a distinct player.
Secondly about aliases and authority blurbs:
If you run your own authority using authentication_reference.php, then you've probably noticed the comments about authentication blurbs—ALIAS in particular. I have also added support for the ALIAS (or USER_ALIAS) blurbs—you can see an example on my player page. You can include multiple aliases, like “ALIAS id1 id2”, and the IDs need to be authenticated names. Maybe ALIAS blurbs will supplant the “FOO baz” blurb in popularity.
