You've made an interesting point @viking-ventures
When we join an account, we get about 15 steempower, but 14.5 is delegated. Leaving us with just 0.5 SteemPower!
I am reading Posts from people that joined with Steemit about 6+ months ago to 2 years ago saying how they got a few hundred steempower upon joining.
Looks like they changed their SP allocation to new users at some point.
RE: i just upvoted someone and their balance went DOWN 1 cent !!! ???