@heymattsokol i agree with you because i remember when i joined last week , though i was enjoying the activities of posting and upvoting . then came the mesaage that my voting power is low. I beleive thats was when steem fell down in the currency chat, so i have to power up my SP. Now not because am compel to but because i knew the importance in the future. But for new users to be compel to always power up, itwont make a cut here ..they will not understand but just say is a pyramid stuff. So i dont support first powering up fee for fresh users.