Forum:Deleting talk pages

So for the last, I don't know - year? - IP talk pages have been deleted when the associated IP is perceived to be vandalizing. I would like to know what the hell that's supposed to accomplish. Is it to get rid of the welcome message? Because their edits aren't actually welcome? Deleting their talk page just causes them to receive another welcome message the next time they edit, repeating the process. And, ignoring the occasional non-welcome message that's actually deleted (as in, a user is actually trying to have a conversation with the IP), deleting the talk page does not double as a warning to the user, which I assume is to be a secondary purpose.

Can we stop doing this, or is there some other benefit I'm not seeing? ~SnapperTo 05:50, April 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * It does seem relatively pointless, doesn't it? I can't find a purpose or benefit of it either.Ryne 91 (talk) 05:53, April 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * I saw this began being done after I started massively reporting people to Jacce. I think it was done as a middle ground between doing nothing and blocking someone for something that a warning should be enough. Over at Avatar wiki, a template was made for such situations. If someone vandalised an article, just put the template (it was done with the subst thing so the code would go on the page as well) and the person was warned. If they kept going, they'd be blocked. It allowed us to have an official warning. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 21:24, April 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * A warning would be far more effective. The welcome message can even be removed when the warning is being given if it seems necessary. But deleting the talk page doesn't solve anything. ~SnapperTo 23:11, April 11, 2011 (UTC)