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dark.do (dark.do) rejected: (1) not on-shelf for educational — general darknet/politics news with XMR ticker + donation button, zero XMR-specific coverage in 9-article corpus, category-fit does not improve with tenure; (2) aggregator-branded-as-original — 6 of 15 RSS items are backfilled Dec 2023 mainstream wire headlines under a darkdobot byline while /about claims 100% in-house sourced news; (3) overclaim-vs-reality gap — /about claims 21M reach / 45K followers / 11.5K daily visitors / 15 articles per day / 10+ authors / 11 mirrors, observed reality <1 article/day + 1 bot byline + 0 peer footprint + 8 mirrors. Fabrication-shaped overclaims read reader-hostile. Not in prior rejection log; adding aggregator-branded-as-original + overclaim-vs-reality-gap as reusable disqualifiers.