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Incorrect raw JSON failure message on posting a comment
In a Codidact community where I have not yet earned the "Participate Everywhere" ability, I am unable to comment except on my own posts and answers to my own posts. This is as intended.
I attempted to post a comment in an existing comment thread on an answer to my own question on Electrical Engineering Meta (where I do not have "Participate Everywhere"). I expected this to work, because although I did not create the comment thread, I should be able to add comments to it since it is on an answer to my question.
It appeared to fail. However, instead of a failure message through the user interface, I received a raw JSON response, which Firefox displays as a list of keys and values:
Note that this is not a screenshot of the developer window. This is what is displayed to the user after pressing "Add reply". It's not a pop up window, it's the sole content of the page.
In addition to not being how errors are generally presented to the user, the error is also incorrect, as the comment was successfully posted (which I found out later when I visited the question page again).
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