Some Guy wrote:
I remember reading way back when I first started a node, it will take a couple hours before your node is integrated. For a user that's basically just a really long installation process. Sure it's annoying, but so what. You install it, go to sleep and try it out the next day. Maybe in that time 100% of your CPU is being eaten up.
It might be ok for you, but it probably reduces our userbase to about 1% of what it would otherwise be.
I think there are ways of doing what Some Guy (and I) want without excluding 99% of users who are interested in joining an anonymous network.
During or right after a (short) installation process, make it clear to the user that both his "reputation" and "experience" is linked to how fast he'll be able to get data from Freenet. Also, provide on the Web Gateway some measure of each (we can figure out how to calculate these later), and also some buttons or links that say "build reputation" or "build experience".
The "bulid experience" button might just tell the user to stay connected and he will get more experienced with time. The "build reputation" button might start creating HashCash, updating the user with how it's going.
Right after installation Freenet should be in "teaching mode", advising the user about building reputation, and reminding the user to do so if he hasn't allowed the program to build it up yet.
In short, if we provide the users a lot of hand-holding, we should have no problem getting them to use a trust-based system.
-Martin
P.S. Oh, imagine all the bubbles and pointy things we could have... maybe even have "Hops" the Freenet rabbit show up like that stupid Micorsoft paperclip. But seriously, it is possible to guide the user in such a way that he understands and accepts the length of time required to get up and running.
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