Feature request: Insufficient comment karma error messaging

[vanoosbree]

I dearly apologize if this violates contribution guidelines, but I thought I'd share my thoughts anyway...

Request: Add more verbose error messaging when the root cause is insufficient comment karma.

Use case: As a user with low comment karma, it was not immediately clear to me how much comment karma is needed before I'm allowed to broadcast. If the current threshold, 250, is a (semi)permanent value, it would be helpful to see this figure in the product, along with my current comment karma.

As an infrequent Reddit commenter, it wasn't clear what comment karma is or where to go in my account profile to review it.

I also noticed that the list of subreddits doesn't even populate unless user has met the comment karma threshold, so it seems this information is known ahead of time before user clicks Start Stream (I'm assuming because user has already signed in under the Stream setting). While this is true, as an example, buttons/text fields could be disabled and warning text could state, "You currently have {{COMMENT_KARMA_VALUE}} comment karma. You will not be able to broadcast until you've met the comment karma threshold, {{COMMENT_KARMA_THRESHOLD}}" or something similar. Links to further reading would be a bonus!

After all, more robust error messaging leads to better user experiences, even if it's not the ideal experience :) Thanks for reading!