Re: Proposed XMPP Extension: Explicit Mentions

> XEP-0224 is pretty clear that the purpose is to send a message which
> cases more of an attention-grabbing alert than the same message would
> otherwise have received, and that how to get the user's attention is
> up to the implementation. So if a client gets a message with this tag
> it should alert the user in some way. In a MUC usually a message does
> not notify the user at all, so any notification at all would be more
> than usual. That is why it is appropriate for "room mentions", since
> those don't mention anything but rather indicate that a messge should
> alert users.

Sure, I do think people at least agree that its meant to get the user's
attention more than a message otherwise would, but its use beyond that
isn't agreed upon even if we only consider what's been discussed in
this thread.

The use-case you've proposed is seemingly to BE the room mention, which
users send directly.

Another use-case is for the MUC service to use when a message contains
a mention. When forwarding the stanza to a user that's been mentioned,
it attaches the element.

There was also the use-case where its meant to mark a message as
important or urgent, entirely independently from mentions/notifications.

All three of these fill the niche of "grab the user's attention
somehow", but do it for completely different purposes in different ways.
I'm not sure it makes sense to depend on a XEP with no consensus, but if
I were to use it, I'd most likely go with the second option.
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