I'll admit, when I first started torrent I was not really familiar with how it worked and how important seeding was. I would just use magnet links without configuration to save the torrent and seed after completion. Well.. I have finally, got myself back to 1.00 after a couple months and working to try to always seed double what I get for each torrent.
Often times I was one of the few random seeders available for some of these torrents. Friendly reminder to give back because you never know when you're one of the rare cases that can complete someones long lost file download!
If you don't have a seedbox you're basically "competing" against people who do. So, even if you're willing to seed to a ratio of 2.0 and keep things around for months or years, the requests that go to seedboxes get fulfilled at an insane bandwidth and nobody needs the content you're serving up using your 2400 baud modem.