Halfalp, I wouldn't overly concern yourself with your Eupedia reputation rating...
As Maciamo said, the highest rated contributors hold by far the largest sway in the direction of your score. If you'll notice, moderators are granted massive rating points and their thumb up or thumb down will hurtle you straight toward the ceiling or quickly into the basement.
Now without trying to ruffle too many feathers, I will point out that there does seem to be a pro-globalist lean on Eupedia. Also if you are an agnostic or atheist your view point will align closer to the founder of this site... Maciamo. I don't think I am out of school by mentioning these observations. Many of the chosen moderators hold political and/or religious frameworks that somewhat mirror that of the site's creator. If I developed a space such as this, I would do the same thing frankly.
I do get a decent amount of likes on my threads and comments and these are appreciated, however they probably come from the "plebian" class and thus don't much effect my status. That's O.K.-- I'll take what I can get!
That being said, I received at least two thumbs up either today or yesterday and yet somehow lost another bar. Not sure how that happened. I'm going to be jumping from the basement into the toilet...
Well, Nordic Warrior, if you're talking about me, I think you'd be very surprised by my actual political orientation, and to some extent by my religious one as well.
Some other moderators might also surprise you.
The only reason I get so many downvotes, and believe me I do, is because I'm not a racist, call out racist or ultra-nationalist
comments no matter who makes them, and I have this nasty habit of demolishing arguments based on abject ignorance, fantasy, and agendas rather than on scientific fact and logical thinking.
As for accumulating upvotes and a good reputation on the site, you get a good reputation here the same way you do in your job: by hard work, i.e. posting papers, articles, collections of data, making cogent arguments. Anyone who hasn't done that hard work has no business complaining about lack of upvotes.
The way to get downvotes is to showcase in a post lack of knowledge of genetics, genetics papers, important data, lack of logic and reasoning ability, and even worse, deliberate misstatements of fact. Every down vote I've ever given was amply deserved. The only reason I don't give more is because it's so clear that some people don't know what they're talking about that there's no point in engaging with them at all.