different names for the same thing

Actually, the ones that sting me the most aren't the "This needs a lot of work" variety. The ones I find the most painful are the brief, one-line, "Sorry, not interested" kind. At least scathing and even insulting tells me that the story was read, and the fact that the story attracted scorn spurs me to improve my writing. The cold, brief dismissal makes me feel like whatever I've written wasn't even worth the effort to insult. Better scorn than silence, for me.