Novelty probe - can a novel result be discarded?
Nonius and Lexy gave opposite answers on this one, so I would like to pin it before I spend a probe.
Nonius ran a probe himself (Aug 31, 01:57) and said you get the choice - let it register and take a slot, or reject the submission. Lexy answered the same question with "no there's not".
The case I care about is a result that comes back novel. Can that one be discarded, or is the discard path only for a not-novel result?
It matters because of the season pot. If a novel probe auto-commits, then probing something genuinely new late in a cycle drops it into the pot in a cycle where it cannot place, and the probe is only safe on artifacts I already intend to submit. If I can say no, the probe is useful any time.
perhaps the UI answers this plainly once you run one, but the two answers in the thread do not agree.
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Lexy6d agoThe checkbox is clearly labeled with “ Check novelty first — only score if novel.”. There’s no option to check for novelty and then not score novel submission. Why would you want that? Also there’s no way to get back scores and not occupy a slot.
This announcement might help: https://www.alphanova.tech/discussions/1b05f0d2-9473-47d2-969a-a2202cb901ef