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Created an account just for this? Pathetic.

The same is happening to me. My supervisors just told me that it happens and that we can't do anything...

May I ask what the original comment was?

It was something like this:

> What do you think I should do?

Quit your phd.

Thanks.

There's a lot of context that's lacking here. What were the initial reviews like? If they were negative enough that everyone felt the paper couldn't be salvaged or there were major critical flaws, then probably no-one felt the need to waste any time looking at it twice. Or it could also be that your rebuttal did not address the critical issues pointed out by the reviewers. Or the reviewers plainly all sucked. If you'd be willing to link to the openreview page, it'd be easier to give you suggestions on what you should do next.

Ugh. Thats frustrating. I don’t think there is anything more to do.

That’s way better than mine. I posted dozens of comments, asking for discussion, because obviously there is one reviewer has not spend more than 10 minutes on reading my submission. But he didn’t response. And the other reviewers just edited their review, instead of joining the discussion. Well.

if it is borderline or less, and there is another possible venue to submit, withdraw and re-submit. if none, just wait ... maybe the AE is fair enough to read your reply and give you good judgement.

First, I'm sure that they read your reply, maybe also more than once, and I'm sure they come back many times to see if other reviewers responded or not ... this is human nature. But what doesn't make them reply, that's the question. The first possibility is that these reviewers just ask their students to do the review for them, and don't come back to them for reply. The second is that they had an initial thought about the paper, maybe they didn't like the ideas presentation or the writing, and they are not welling to change their feedback whatever you said. I'm not sure about the exact reason, but this is not in ICLR alone, maybe this is the public one, but this is the case in most rebuttals.

Yeah I also think the reviewers who edited their reviews read my response. Actually, one of them claimed that he/she is not in my research field, so I sincerely asked for a discussion in my response, so that I can acknowledge how to make my paper readable for those not in the same research field. (Since my research topic is quite unpopular, this is the case.) But I waited for months, and got nothing. I am not sure that is it really a good way to ignore my response/request about the discussion? The scores on my submission diverge quite a lot, but none of the reviewers ever joined the discussion.

Same for me, (almost) complete silence from both reviewers and AC. I say almost because one reviewer replied without saying anything that referenced our rebuttal save for asking one additional irrelevant question, and then promptly ghosted after that.