I'm not so sure there is a magic ratio. Just do what you can to help. For people like you who have disk space issues, just share what you have. If you want to remove something that is ok. Just share everything you do have.

File sharing is optional with XoloX. Deal with it. That means no one has to share the files(even if that would kill the community).
If you dont like it, go use edonkey2000 or something else that requires sharing. Personally, I share all my files that are in my downloads directory. You will never download my large files because they are removed from that directory immediatly. This is for the good of both you and me. I usually only stay on long enough to download a few songs or a video, and at my capped 15k/s upload that simply isnt enough time to download them anyway. So, I'm just trying to save you the frustration of dealing with 25% of a file that no one else has. Like I said, file sharing is totally optional, if you would rather trade go use edonkey2000 or IRC(in fact theres a newish server thats just all about warez).
Note. I am sharing files, just nothing over 10mb.

That is all.
let the flames begin, heh

PS. I just started using this program about an hour ago and it has crash 3 times, and made winxp come up with the blue screen of death. Makes kazaa hella better...

I began as what you would call a leech, freeloader, suckwad, etc.
Now I share 6.81 gigs of movies and 493 megs of songs. I don't know if I'm the norm or what but if you start blocking people with nothing to share, then they won't be able to get anything TO share. I guess I could find programs that allow me to see what they got to share and perhaps a way to block but I don't care to do so.
I feel fortunate to have access to a program like zolox and if I can help get files duplicated out there by sharing with all, well, that's what we all do here with zolox and if some person doesn't want to SHARE..well...I hope their machine bubbles with cyberfoam.
BUT until then I share with anyone that downloads for they may be as I

Man, I can not belive this post is even around but, it is and always will be a major issue. The truth is freloading is going to happen weather you like it or not ant there is no way to prevent it except not fileshare yourself. Many people do have to start out with nothing to share but most who get involved do return to others what they recived freely from someone. However there is a small number which does not fileshare nor will they ever realy know how others feel about it because they will not bother to read this forum. So ranting about it is all we can do.

10 Gig... dont you think thats a little extreme? not everyone here stores dvd's on their hard drives.

*hides his 200GB (ish)*

I prefer my HD's over scratchable media for some reason

Sadly, however, not everybody has a high bandwidth connection or the time to make file collecting a life hobby, therefore, they don't share too many files...