for every person who leeches on mobile data and can't afford to seed, there's someone who has a freakishly powerful rig that seeds like 17 different torrents 24 hours a day. if you can't afford to seed, don't worry about it, because people who can afford to seed often do. things balance out in the end

Being a leecher when you don't have any alternatives is not something bad.

Most people don't usually torrent on mobile data, and if they do it's understandable that they can't be expected to give back. It's fine, maybe in the future when you get broadband you can start seeding back.

Leachers are a fact of life. It's not praiseworthy, but it's not damning.

Don't worry about it. On the other side of the spectrum are people who use seed boxes which are literally seeding machines. I'm currently seeding 27 torrents 24/7. I occasionally go through and delete old ones with a good ratio (2+) and plenty of seeders. I was in a place similar to you once and I appreciated those who could seed. Now I'm trying to give back.

From each as per their ability for each as per their need.

Dude, from a much more privileged place, please, enjoy your movies and bring yourself all the happy moments you can get.

I used to be a leacher, even when I had a broadband connection. I never really knew why seeding was important. Now, I try to match the data I have uploaded, at least, if not more. Like, of I download a 50gb of something. I seed at least 50gb before I remove it.

I'm a leech because you can get fined in my country for seeding too much

I wouldn't worry about it, not everyone can have good Internet. You're doing what you can and that's okay.

Some people like to rent a seedbox because of this, that way they can download and upload torrents very quickly, especially on private trackers.

Seed > Leech > Disconnected. You’re still providing redundancy for the torrent, but it would be better to seed obviously.

Ganesha would seed, Shiva might leech.

More upload for me

I don't think you're a bad person but you wouldn't be welcome amongst my torrent communities.

It's fine, if hit-and-run leeching was a huge problem then more trackers would enforce seed ratios. But most don't, because it's not. The fact that you mostly leech just means that you can't most private trackers. Oh well, just use the public trackers instead and seed what you can.

IDC if you seed or leech as long as everyone that wants the file gets it.

Pay $2 a month to Gigarapid and get their basic plan.

As long as you seed long enough for me to get the bits I need, I’m cool 

I tried seeding with my data. Typically I get around 1Mbps during the day. Also being behind CG-NAT doesn't help it (can't open ports). So far I only managed to get one torrent above 1.0 ratio, but it took quite a while.

So my guess is that even if you tried, you possibly wouldn't be that successful anyway. Also many popular torrents already have fast seedboxes competing, so your slow unconnectable network won't see much demand anyway.

I just know Master Roshi is hilarious!