I've been a meta-reviewer, reviewer, and author at ICLR many times (not involved in reviewing this paper). The authors did not respond to reviewers properly at

I've been a meta-reviewer, reviewer, and author at ICLR many times (not involved in reviewing this paper). The authors did not respond to reviewers properly at all! Dear readers, please do not do this if you submit. Negative feedback from reviewers is good. It's the point of the review system. If the reviewers aren't going to give negative feedback, we need to remove them. This is not extreme negative feedback by any means. And had the authors actually been correct, they had a shot to convince reviewer, or at least an attentive meta-reviewer. That being said, the instructions for how to reply are clear. Authors must respond to each reviewer individually. Point by point. And then engage in a discussion with the reviewers about their responses. They did none of this. It's the mark of a nutjob who wants to avoid being challenged. Click any of that papers of the first page here to see how it's supposed to work https://openreview.net/group?id=ICLR.cc/2022/Conference https://openreview.net/group?id=ICLR.cc/2022/Conference Complaining about the quality of your reviews to your meta-reviewer is... poor form. And it does not make it more likely your paper will be accepted. We're looking for reasons to accept based on the quality of your work. The perceived shortcomings of reviewers aren't an indication that your work is good. Many meta-reviewers will tell authors to knock it off next time, because this isn't helping their case.