On Gay-Torrents.net downloads are ratio free, so nobody hesitates to download and of course if a torrent is available there and here, people which are member of both, will prefer the free download there.

If you look to the Home page, you'll see many cyan members (ratio above 0.95), actually Power User status members.

If everyone camps on his good ratio and avoids to download, the sharing will stall. What we need is that members understand that not everyone can have a ratio above 1.000 and that a ratio below 1.000 isn't "bad", as long as it is above the next step's minimum ratio.

I can't really help with the techy bits but you could also gather a few bonus points to swap for upload gigs.

Hope things get sorted soon