The uninitiated editors who enter a project with gladness will soon look in sadness at those heaped manuscripts on the floor. If your manuscript fails to get into the first or second issue of a new magazine, chances are the floor is the thi . Again, buy issues of the magazine. Watch its glory or demise. Not all manuscripts hit the floor undeservedly.
Every editor has personal aesthetic opinions.
When a manuscript violates those tastes, it often feels the floor's, never to rise again. If your manuscript violates the aesthetic proclivities of an editor, don't send it to him or her. Read the magazine. Yes, there are fates worse than rejection. Slow decay on an editorial floor is not a pretty sight.