neurips 2026: ACs and reviewers have disappeared [D]

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Summary

Authors of a NeurIPS 2026 submission report that reviewers and ACs went silent after they submitted their rebuttal early via the Rebuttal button, with no notifications triggered for either side, leaving them anxious with only a day left in the discussion period.

we submitted our rebuttal via the "Rebuttal" button before the author/reviewer/AC discussion period officially opened (Jul 27 AoE). since then, we've gotten complete silence from all four reviewers and the AC several of us are also reviewing this cycle. when the discussion period opened on Jul 27 AoE, we got no email notification for rebuttals on papers we're reviewing, specifically for the papers whose authors had also posted early via the "Rebuttal" button. so it feels like anything submitted before the window opened may simply have never triggered any notification we also tried: (1) meta-comments visible to everyone, (2) reviewer reminders, and (3) sending an email to the PCs given there's about 1 day left in the discussion period, what do we do? we honestly thought we had a shot at an oral or spotlight given our initial scores. this is completely messed up.
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