We answer an open problem posed by Mossel--Oleszkiewicz--Sen regarding relations between $p$-log-Sobolev inequalities for $p\in(0,1]$. We show that for any interval $I\subset(0,1]$, there exist $q,p\in I$, $q<p$, and a measure $μ$ for which the $q$-log-Sobolev inequality holds, while the $p$-log-Sobolev inequality is violated. As a tool we develop certain necessary and closely related sufficient conditions characterizing those inequalities in the case of birth-death processes on $\mathbb{N}$.