Situation: Someone makes a post asking a question. I spend time answering it. Then the post is deleted.
I can no longer access the post and therefore can not find the author to block them.
What I do have is a link to an empty page.
How do I find the author?
I get what you’re saying, and I kind of agree, but to be honest, I’ve had this happen so many times that I’ll first look where something is posted, if it’s (for instance, there are more) asklemmy I’ll just not reply at all.