[stephengillie]

One article I submitted was overridden by an elder member when he submitted it.

I'm not sure what you mean by "elder member" -- do you mean someone with more karma? Someone whose account was created before the account of yours to which you're referring? An individual whose age is greater than yours? An account that makes daily posts and receives regular upvotes?

Also I'm confused about why you're spending so much effort to make yourself noticed -- it's weekend late night/early morning for most of HN's readership, which means your effort has significantly less effect than it would about 50-60 hours from now...

[Questioneer]

Well some people submit articles with '?' at the end or other such nonsense to post the same article others have. But in many instances submissions from 'green' accounts that have gained traction suddenly poofed in favor of the same article from a more established (account age) user.

I was not exactly concerned by it until it the same occurred to me. When the issue was raised, I received a wave of down-votes. To boot further submissions were hell-banned!

Flabbergasted, my tone and demeanor on this site has changed since. Cheers for the conversation instead of silent down-votes or condescending commentary, stephengillie.