You guys gotta learn, Nap runs HL. No mod or admin will ever come in and address your complaints and questions. This thread itself will probably get locked or deleted.
There is something going on behind the scenes where he gets to tell the admins and mods how it's going to be. I don't believe he is a "paid" anything, just someone on the autism spectrum who has probably donated a lot of money to the site and that's why all he has to do is tag an admin and he immediately gets what he wants.
The Russia thread used to be a good source of info, but I haven't looked at it in months because of the constant spamming and derailing he does. The thread is great when he's not posting in it because there are a lot of well-informed and emotionally stable people that do post in it. Download some news apps and put your alerts on. That's how I get my info now.