In the months that I’ve been working towards improving PoH I heard innumerous times the claim “but I am a real human”. Believe me that I trust you are, but the procedure is in place to prevent duplicates and non-humans, it is cold and soul-less, but it serves the purpose of keeping the registry clean. If your first video got approved without being challenged, you just were lucky that during the 3.5 days you were subject to incentivized scrutiny you were not caught by the kind of opportunistic challengers that loom today in the site. After those 3.5 basically no one cared if you followed policy, since there is no incentive to challenge.
The best line of defense is clearly defined policy, as I did with my approved HIP-8 policy, and as I am proposing specifications in the new HIP proposals. I also wrote an extensive analysis on what the current video submission rules are lacking, so of course there is an incredibly great room for improvement.