diff --git a/app/services/release_judge.ts b/app/services/release_judge.ts
index 035bf5c..c77537f 100644
--- a/app/services/release_judge.ts
+++ b/app/services/release_judge.ts
@@ -64,12 +64,15 @@ export const RULES: Rule[] = [
     // "@_CelebMovie_@", "NudeCelebs@CelebMovie.com", "@_CelebWow_@", "@_CelebFX_@", "@_iLuvCelebs_@", "@nude-celebs", …:
     // a celebrity's scraped pictures as a folder under a typed subject, the same files again and again under other
     // titles (LOG.md 2026-10-16 (64)). Not Celeborn, CelebTA or other posters with "celeb" in their name.
-    sql: `SELECT r.id FROM releases r
-          WHERE r.poster ~* '${SCRAPED_POSTERS}' AND r.source = 'subject' AND r.file_total IS NULL`,
+    // By the posters table's trigram index, each poster's releases then by releases_poster_newest_idx: 7 s, where the
+    // regex on all of releases was 45 s, every round (LOG.md 2026-10-19 (80)).
+    sql: `SELECT r.id FROM posters p JOIN releases r ON left(r.poster, 200) = p.poster
+          WHERE p.poster ~* '${SCRAPED_POSTERS}' AND r.poster ~* '${SCRAPED_POSTERS}' AND r.source = 'subject' AND r.file_total IS NULL`,
   },
   {
     name: 'locked',
     says: 'passworded, and no spot, NZB or title gives the password',
+    // releases_passworded_idx: a scan of all of releases was 30 s a round.
     sql: `SELECT r.id FROM releases r WHERE r.passworded AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM release_passwords p WHERE p.release_id = r.id)`,
   },
   {
@@ -141,12 +144,16 @@ export class ReleaseJudge {
             `DELETE FROM release_verdicts v WHERE v.rule = ? AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM judged j WHERE j.release_id = v.release_id)`,
             [rule.name]
           )
+          // Only the releases whose verdict changes: each row through the insert's conflict check took 60–150 s a rule
+          // for a few thousand changes in a million matches (LOG.md 2026-10-19 (80)).
+          await trx.rawQuery(`ANALYZE judged`)
           const added = await trx.rawQuery(
             `INSERT INTO release_verdicts (release_id, rule, rule_version)
-             SELECT j.release_id, ?, ? FROM judged j JOIN releases r ON r.id = j.release_id
+             SELECT j.release_id, ?, ? FROM judged j LEFT JOIN release_verdicts v ON v.release_id = j.release_id
+             WHERE v.rule IS DISTINCT FROM ? AND EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM releases r WHERE r.id = j.release_id)
              ON CONFLICT (release_id) DO UPDATE SET rule = excluded.rule, rule_version = excluded.rule_version
              WHERE release_verdicts.rule <> excluded.rule`,
-            [rule.name, JUDGE_VERSION]
+            [rule.name, JUDGE_VERSION, rule.name]
           )
           stats.removed = removed.rowCount ?? 0
           stats.added = added.rowCount ?? 0
diff --git a/app/services/spot_inspector.ts b/app/services/spot_inspector.ts
index 60d18bc..9ed5a83 100644
--- a/app/services/spot_inspector.ts
+++ b/app/services/spot_inspector.ts
@@ -349,6 +349,8 @@ export class SpotInspector {
     const releaseId = Number(row.id)
     await db.transaction(async (trx) => {
       await trx.table('release_spots').insert({ release_id: releaseId, spot_id: spotId, files: files.length }).onConflict(['release_id', 'spot_id']).ignore()
+      // Its poster for poster search, as the batch store adds its releases' (migration 4000).
+      if (spot.poster) await trx.rawQuery(`INSERT INTO posters (poster) VALUES (left(?, 200)) ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING`, [spot.poster])
       if (spot.password) {
         await trx.table('release_passwords').insert({ release_id: releaseId, password: spot.password, source: spot.password_source ?? 'spot-text', spot_id: spotId }).onConflict(['release_id', 'password']).ignore()
       }
diff --git a/database/migrations/1770000004700_judge_indexes.ts b/database/migrations/1770000004700_judge_indexes.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b8c958
--- /dev/null
+++ b/database/migrations/1770000004700_judge_indexes.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+import { BaseSchema } from '@adonisjs/lucid/schema'
+
+/**
+ * The junk judge's locked rule by an index of the passworded releases (1.2M of 74M), not a scan of all of releases
+ * every round (30 s; LOG.md 2026-10-19 (80)). And the posters of the spot inspector's own releases (source `spot`),
+ * which it didn't add to posters: poster search, and the judge's scraped rule by posters, missed them.
+ */
+export default class extends BaseSchema {
+  static disableTransactions = true
+
+  async up() {
+    this.schema.raw(`CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY IF NOT EXISTS releases_passworded_idx ON releases (id) WHERE passworded`)
+    this.schema.raw(
+      `INSERT INTO posters (poster) SELECT DISTINCT left(s.poster, 200) FROM spots s
+       JOIN releases r ON r.id = s.release_id AND r.source = 'spot' WHERE s.poster IS NOT NULL ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING`
+    )
+  }
+
+  async down() {
+    this.schema.raw(`DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY IF EXISTS releases_passworded_idx`)
+  }
+}
diff --git a/tests/functional/release_judge.spec.ts b/tests/functional/release_judge.spec.ts
index 988dc2f..abbafc5 100644
--- a/tests/functional/release_judge.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/functional/release_judge.spec.ts
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ test.group('ReleaseJudge', (group) => {
 
     const scraped = await release('Jamie Lee Curtis Nude Celebrity Pictures', { poster: '@_CelebMovie_@', source: 'subject' })
     const celeborn = await release('Some.Album.2010', { poster: 'celeborn@not.here (Celeborn)', source: 'subject' })
+    // Scraped posters are found through posters (the batch store adds each release's).
+    await db.table('posters').multiInsert([{ poster: '@_CelebMovie_@' }, { poster: 'celeborn@not.here (Celeborn)' }])
     const locked = await release('Locked.Thing', { passworded: true })
 
     const unlocked = await release('Known.Password', { passworded: true })
@@ -107,6 +109,9 @@ test.group('ReleaseJudge', (group) => {
     await db.table('release_passwords').insert({ release_id: locked, password: 'found', source: 'nzb' })
     const again = await new ReleaseJudge().round()
     assert.equal(again.rules.locked.removed, 1)
+    // Verdicts that stay are not written again.
+    assert.equal(again.rules.repeated.added, 0)
+    assert.equal(again.rules.fake.added, 0)
     assert.isNull(await db.from('release_verdicts').where('release_id', locked).first())
   })
 })
diff --git a/tests/functional/spots.spec.ts b/tests/functional/spots.spec.ts
index 0dbdf60..01df678 100644
--- a/tests/functional/spots.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/functional/spots.spec.ts
@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ test.group('Spots', (group) => {
     const release = await db.from('releases').where('source', 'spot').firstOrFail()
     assert.equal(release.name, 'Lonely File')
     assert.equal(release.files, 1)
+    assert.isNotNull(release.poster)
+    assert.isNotNull(await db.from('posters').where('poster', release.poster).first())
     const { default: NzbService } = await import('#services/nzb_service')
     assert.include((await NzbService.build(Number(release.id)))!.xml, 'lonely.file.mkv')
     // Not again while it has one; once the header pass builds the file's release, the spot moves there.