I still use firefox ( and any fork of it ) rather than use any differently coloured chromium ( including brave, their ceo does not have a good reputation too )
I would guess if you want direct contact with mods of such communities, i recommend you the lemmy.world moderation discord. I can send you a invite over dm.
Its ok you made it here, but i personally would have done it in a news community ( in cooperation with the mods ) a pinned post about their experience or thoughts on this process.
Because there will be less interaction here as this community is used when something broke, needs help ( related to Lemmy.world ).
You would have a lot more interaction speaking directly to users of such communities that are focused on news.
I am not sure, but i think you have the wrong community for this topic.
We already tried on making a "Bias fact check Bot aggregator" but it got.... i would say best case not welcomed. Because some people were offended that their favorite News outlet got not favorable rating in one of the aggregated sources.
This happens when CSS isnt loaded correctly for example when you just lost internet during loading or have adblocker block the css fetching, so a simple refresh should fix that. Of course it doesnt let you because the real validation is done in the backend.
In the case of "DMs on removal of a post / comment" it is possible to do that with the current api of lemmy. But sadly nothing "official" yet. And it wont come anytime soon as lemmy devs officially announced they wont work at any moderation related topics for a while.
Banned from the community, VPN ( this isnt it as otherwise you couldnt post this ).
For better understanding your issue, please check your network tab in your browsers console and check what response code you get and what response you get.
The whole page just dont work, because he denied consent blocking 3rd party with ublock or so just removes them and doesnt deny or accept them. So it doesnt "block" you as the fallthrough for many pages are "Consented"
If other posts arent rated high, then new posts are "Top" rated high at the start. But if other posts have higher votes then new posts will be below them.
I still use firefox ( and any fork of it ) rather than use any differently coloured chromium ( including brave, their ceo does not have a good reputation too )