Your last comment must be about the "Outside seeding" section of the ratio guide?

I guess it depends on the individual's attitude toward the entire idea of sharing. To me, I can improve my ratio on a private tracker while further benefitting the whole by continuing to seed what I download on the public tracker. If I'm already seeding the files for one tracker, why wouldn't I just keep the other one active?

If the attitude is I will download this from the public tracker, stop the torrent immediately, and then seed for my ratio... That's the kind of person a private tracker probably doesn't want and maybe won't last anyway.