@dick_turpin
> Most users are not as technically skilled as you or I
I thank you for your assumption that I am technically skilled : )
> they would expect to be able to go to the offender's profile and go, "There! SEE!"
The fediverse has post deletion. It federates, but we have to trust every server that's received it to honour it. Some people have tools that auto-delete their posts after X time. Trolls can also use Block (on accounts and whole servers) to revoke access to their posts.