[pb7]

Responding to an offending user’s comment on a site with no notifications barely qualifies as telling them. If you truly wanted to inform them, you would either put a banner next to their name in the header or simply prevent them from being able to post. You and I both know what the intention is here, just like the rate limit you have placed on my account.

[dang]

It's telling them in the same way that anybody tells anybody anything here.

Obviously the intention is to inform—otherwise why bother? Those comments take a lot of time to write.