Thanks. As an example, as I mentioned above, stories about Gina Haspel were unceremoniously dumped directly from the front page while under active discussion, at least three times in a single day.

Any conversations here about mass surveillance, Snowden, Assange etc are chock full of misinformation and smears. Those comments are rarely removed, so I don't buy the 'that story doesn't fit in HN's remit' narrative.

My major gripe is more general though: How can we call ourselves a community of hackers and entrepreneurs if there is no space whatsoever for critiquing the forum itself?

There is currently absolutely no accountability here whatsoever. If this community were healthy I don't think it would be tolerated - instead people don't even see the problem.