As awfully wrong as it may sound, Bittorrent is a business environment. The customers get paid in content, the tracker gets back a healthy reputation (such as BCG's), a decent amount of bandwidth, sparse donations, and promise of the longevity on the content, for the tracker.
Both sides get what they need, and in that case both sides are indispensable.
Just as in any business, most customers are expendable. The whole "Let them know your opinion with your wallet" doesn't really work all that well in the real world, and we all know it. Take companies like Rockstar, Microsoft, Apple, Bethseda, the list can go on and on. No matter how upset the customers are, some of them still buy, enough, actually, to keep the business model unchanged. Standing "still" is never good in business, but it also means you're not falling behind.
Similarly, in a tracker environment, I'm sure a lot of the customers, more often than not, are disposable. To put it simply, even if a good member chooses to go against the wishes of the tracker's staff and the common good, the tracker would remain unchanged, and would move on just as he had never been a member of the tracker. Someone else will fulfill his role, someone else will take his duties, someone else will seed just as much as he did, because they probably share the same seeding mindset.
However, I feel this dogma doesn't apply when a good member has a genuine issue, that is for the greater good. I've seen time and again members storm away from a tracker in a tirade, deleting all their personally uploaded torrents etc. and yet, on the opposite side of the spectrum, I've always seen the better members raise their issues cordially, form a poll etc. The latter kind is the one I consider indispensable, for they are the ones that want to not only use the tracker, but actually want to see it become better, just as much if not the same as the actual tracker staff.
My .02$
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