There are MANY members who maintain a ratio above 1.0 without donating. They do it by uploading new material, seeding the material they have downloaded, and making use of the freeleech torrents. If you are serious about improving your ratio without donating, drop me a note, and I'll send you a set of instructions to earn crazy amounts of seed bonus. You can then turn that seed bonus into upload credit and boost your ratio to the moon.
Id Like info on boosting ratios etc as mine are terrible and Ive got such a long way to go to be able to download again…. but I like a challenge 