Point for you. But you know that normal seed rules apply even for free torrents? The only differens is, that your download is not counted against you global ratio. Freeleech torrenst still have to be seeded to a ratio of at least 0.7 or 48hrs.
If it was only your global ratio which caused your ban, I would totally agree with you. In that case choosing the torrent you chose was the right thing to do. But I also said, that global ratio might get you into trouble, because staff tends to check low global ratio accounts more, but we rarely ban because of a low global ratio. At least not fast without plenty of previous warnings.
Your fault was that you h&r within your 2 weeks warning period. This is unacceptable. What's interesting when you registered you seeded fine for about two weeks. Looks like you really understood our rules. The last three week you have only h&r's. You added even h&r's after you got warned. I doubt there are many private trackers, which tolerate such a behaviour.
Perfectly understandable, and we accept that many members have machines, which are not online 24/7. So sensible interruptions are fine. Of course it is hard to argue with 'sensible interruption' when several torrents are days or even weeks old, seeded less then 48hrs and new torrents show that in the mean time the computer was running long enough to download other stuff. This was a general statement and not solely related to your case.
Offering a donation is never rude. If you had done this before, you would have been allowed to h&r. Your global ratio would have skyrocketed so that you hardly ever had to worry about it again. But now you are banned. Though we always need money, the servers don't pay for itself, good and active members are of higher priority. It is fairly easy to get AceT membership, there are much harder sites to get in. But that easy that a banned member just can buy his way back.....I don't know. I will talk with Ace and the other owners about this.