1) Given the difficulty of circumventing negative trust will users actually be bothered to do it?It wouldn't be so difficult if someone else had already gone through the trouble of creating and distributing SuperFreenet.jar.
How would SuperFreenet.jar manage to run a Freenet node on multiple IP addresses? You must have found a part of the Java API that I'm not familiar with.
2) Given the benefits of circumventing negative trust will users actually be bothered to do it?Has anyone shown the benefits to cheating to be negligible?
The correct question is whether anyone has shown it not to be negligible. There will only be benefits in cheating if nodes are perpetually overloaded, which shouldn't be the case once we have solved the load balancing problem.
I think we have to take that on a case-by-case basis. In Tom's case, for example, IF (big IF) someone could create and use N IP addresses at the same time, the greedy user would get away with N times fewer QRs. Other uses of negative trust would have to be evaluated on their own merits.
While people navel-gaze over theoretical issues the network is barely working due to these load-balancing problems. I would rather have an imperfect solution now than a perfect solution later.
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