Comment length warning in preview

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Title:
Comment length warning in preview

Area:
commenting

Summary:
It would be nice if the comment preview screen told you whether you'd reached the character comment limit, without you needing to actually press "post" to find out.

Description:
Sometimes people post prompt memes where other people leave really long stories in comments! Sometimes these stories overflow even DW's very generous comment character limits.

Right now, if you try to post a comment that goes over the limit, you get an error message that tells you your comment is too long, how many characters are allowed, and how many characters your comment is.

It would be great if that error message appeared on the comment preview, as well as when trying to post - that way people wouldn't have to guess about whether their comment will fit, and how many comments they will need total.

(Or they could look up what the comment limit is, and then use an external character counter, but that's <I>hard</i> :P)

It would be even cooler if the error message did the math for you and told you how many comments you would need, total, in order to fit the whole thing!

Poll #8839 Comment length warning in preview

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 90

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Should be implemented as-is.
71 (78.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
14 (15.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
5 (5.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)