I started this morning with 175. I have had 5 thumbs up today, but my counter still says 175.
Not a big deal. It doesn’t affect game play. It doesn’t affect my postings on the forum. Just curious if anyone else has noticed it.
And if it is a bug, or if “old” thumbs up are rolling off? I have noticed on some peoples accounts that the rep system says they have “20” (random number), but if you pull up their rep points on their profile, it show that they have a lot more.
I liked your post and your rep went up by one, so it appears to be working ok.
Thumbs up in the Alliance thread don’t count. Just so that alliances aren’t inflating each others’ reps.
When You click on Your rep number, You will see that some of the points are “evaluation points” - the ranking points are disabled in the Alliance subforum, so those 5 pts You got are for the posts You wrote there.
Glad I could help 
Thanks guys! I didn’t realize that the thumbs up points in the Alliance threads didn’t count.
I learn something new every day. 