@padredenny It has become extremely difficult to maintain a positive ratio in the last few years, I don't even notice it happening... I just remember that I used to have a very high ratio and recently it's been slowly decreasing, which has innevitably prompted in a change of my behavior, now I'm much more careful with what I choose to download, and as a result I have less active torrents, reducing my seeding capacities even further.
I have stopped downloading anything that isn't freeleech, unless it's something that I REALLY crave and failed to find somewhere else. This is only effective in preventing your ratio to go down, it has barely no effect whatsoever in improving the ratio.
The only proper action one is able to take is start uploading their own massive torrents, which has become a standard. Someone needs to build their ratio so they go and upload a 100GB torrent, meaning someone will go and download 100GB risking to never seed it enough to make up for the spent bytes, so now this person will need to upload their own massive torrent. The result is simply a fuckload of massive torrents that nobody care about, they just sit there forever with a couple of seeders.
If I recall correctly, the last tweak/update that was made to the ratio algorithm happened 10 years ago, the issues that prompted those changes have been replaced with newer issues and, from my own experience, those have been going unaddressed since then.