New chat bubbles for translations ?

[LightKnight]

Good evening.
As a regular translator, I have often experienced the problem that I couldn't add a comment without changing the translation. And I think that adding a chat to translators would this way also improve the atmosphere in translations zones, and make stop the battle of floods which is funny at first but become quickly a problem and a lack of serious (if you are french, check on the translation page of The Inventors, where there's for instance this : "Canoë, canoë, Canoë, canoë, Canoë, canoë, Canoë...) - I have in a way, one could say, participated to the one of "envoyer travailler" and "utiliser", but I did it with adding a translator comment, and I wouldn't repeat it twenty consecutive times. To this I add that I don't think the job is already simply made here, because the forum is quite too formular and taking time, and also taking place ; we could say that at the contrary, the version we have right now, with the "translators' comments" is too informular, thus a chat would be a balance.
I therefore think that this chat would make the work of translators more easy, more comfortable, more serious.
What do you think ?

[ThierryC]

Hello,
I fully agree with LightKnight that it is annoying not being able to discuss a point without changing a translation, or simply saying something "yeah, thanks, you found a great way to translate this / found the word I was missing".
I also feel it generates a kind of tension not being able to communicate "normally".

However, I'm not sure I see how LightKnight thinks the chat should be implemented. I mean, if it's for instance a chat room for each game, like the ones in games, then it will be difficult to find keep track of what is said for which string.

LightKnight, are you thinking of a kind of secondary zone of comment for each string? Or simply to be able to add a comment without changing the string? (in which case, there should be a clear indication whether the string has been edited or not)

[LightKnight]

I'm not thinking of anything specific, it was just a general idea.
Confusedly I thought about one chat for each game, but I hope to receive comments like yours, that could help administrators to find the best formula.

I mean, if it's for instance a chat room for each game, like the ones in games, then it will be difficult to find keep track of what is said for which string.

LightKnight, are you thinking of [...] simply [being] able to add a comment without changing the string? (in which case, there should be a clear indication whether the string has been edited or not)

I had both ideas. And now that you said that, I made the reflexion that having both two would be interesting. The first makes it complicated to see what exactly, specifically, we're talking about, but it could be used about general points that have emerged from several strings with the same difficulty. The second one is the most practical and - I suppose - the easiest to adopt and admit to be useful. It could complete the first idea, since it's about commenting on particular strings.