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Use when drafting ACM PODS author responses, covering the short ~48-hour double-anonymous rebuttal that corrects misreadings of proofs and definitions, and — distinctively — the shepherded revision cover letter that maps every required item to a concrete change in the resubmitted paper and survives the shepherd's second read.

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# PODS Author Response

Use this after PODS reviews are released. PODS has **two distinct speaking turns**, and conflating
them is a common mistake: a short **rebuttal** (about 48 hours, a few thousand characters) right after
reviews, and — if you receive a **revision** decision — a **revision cover letter** accompanying a
resubmitted paper that a **shepherd** re-reads. Both stay double-anonymous: do not reveal authors,
affiliations, or a named system, even to strengthen a point.

## Triage (both turns)

- Answer what affects correctness first: a claimed error in a proof, an unstated assumption, a
  mismatch between an upper and a lower bound, or an out-of-scope objection.
- Distinguish a **misreading** (the reviewer misunderstood a definition or missed an existing appendix
  proof — fixable now, in the rebuttal) from a **real gap** (a step that genuinely needs to be written
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