The floor is a selection filter (§5.5): it keeps the ranking from picking mud while better candidates are still on the table. Once a release is grabbed there is nothing left to choose between, so a hard fail at import condemns a file already on disk and blacklists the release under §5.7 — over a number the indexer gave before the grab. Size is not post-download evidence either; §5.6 gives ffprobe audio, HDR, codec and duration. It bit packs hardest. Pre-grab measures a pack by its total over the season length; import measures each file on its own, so one short episode condemned the whole release and reopened the season. And §6.3 outlasts the fix: a blacklisted release stays rejected however the operator later sets allow_below_floor, with no delete path. Post-download the floor now waives instead, whatever the overrides say. The file imports and carries a waiver naming the floor it missed.