Re: rel="discuss"

[Eric Scheid <eric.scheid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/5/08 9:13 AM, "Danny Ayers" <danny.ayers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2008/5/8 Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> In the Jabber community we've been looking at defining links to, say, a
>> chat room where a post could be discussed. Therefore we've been thinking
>> about defining rel="discuss". The value of such a link could point to an
>> XMPP-based or SIP-based groupchat room, an IRC channel, an email
>> discussion list, a web forum, or other such venue. Does this seem
>> reasonable?
> 
> Pretty much : "discuss" seems a good umbrella term, I'd imagine it being a
> better choice than say "chat" or "comment".

but is it better than "comments"?

The imperative-verb nature of "discuss" smells a bit wrong to me, but not
absoutely (we do also have "subscribe", right?)

e.