From 0f12cf111f0037eff402d9634a0a96f5cc1cd9d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vitor Pamplona <vitor@vitorpamplona.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:36:45 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Updates NIP-53 live chat to remove markers and add `q` tags
 (#1747)

---
 53.md | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/53.md b/53.md
index cd84e4fe..69d1c9f0 100644
--- a/53.md
+++ b/53.md
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ This feature is important to avoid malicious event owners adding large account h
 
 ### Live Chat Message
 
-Event `kind:1311` is live chat's channel message. Clients MUST include the `a` tag of the activity with a `root` marker. Other Kind-1 tags such as `reply` and `mention` can also be used.
+Event `kind:1311` is live chat's channel message. Clients MUST include the `a` tag of the activity. An `e` tag denotes the direct parent message this post is replying to. 
 
 ```jsonc
 {
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ Event `kind:1311` is live chat's channel message. Clients MUST include the `a` t
 }
 ```
 
+`q` tags MAY be used when citing events in the `.content` with [NIP-21](21.md).
+
+```json
+["q", "<event-id> or <event-address>", "<relay-url>", "<pubkey-if-a-regular-event>"]
+```
+
 Hosts may choose to pin one or more live chat messages by updating the `pinned` tags in the live event kind `30311`.
 
 ## Use Cases