I feel your pain. While currently or in the past, I have been judged worthy by The Daily Beast, Daily Mail, NY Daily News, Village Voice, New York Times and even more prestigious publications the likes of Screw, Juggs, Gallery, Orgy, Leg Scene (and on and on), I have completely struck out with Medium. But rather than go to a shrink and blow money on neuroses that the rejection doesn't bring, I view all this negative feedback as their failings, and continue to either publish endless entries from a blog I had to shut down because the federal government didn't like what I was writing. I don't need Medium's money. I just need intellectual activity to fill in when my freelance career slumps. Medium fulfills that nicely. I don't spend that much time on it. And I don't sweat the rejections. I simply continue regardless of whether I'm acknowledged or not.