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"Negative" experience was intended to protect new players from attacks by much stronger players, but times have changed, and we need to consider changes and a general discussion on this topic.

Drawbacks of the current system:

• Many players "stay" at a given level and don't advance.
• Top players don't have many opponents to perform SF, and there's a high risk of failure, so they unload their weapons and fight a "draw."
• There's little activity in fights, including wars.

These two server wars showed that removing negative experience significantly increased activity and the number of fights.

Lower-level players would also benefit – more fights (losses) mean more experience and faster progression.

The only restriction I would leave is a fixed 5% gold loss if you attack a player more than 5 levels lower (instead of the standard random 5-10% win).

I'm waiting for your comments

It would be a terrible idea to remove the negative exp. penalty, going with your logic the strongest knights on a server could attack literally anyone without any consequences. You are delusional if you think that any new/low level player will be happy to be attacked by many strong knights every day.
Exp penalty should not be removed in wars too, because everybody has to decide if s/he want to sacrifice exp for their guild in order to win the war.