When I envision everything surrounding publishing an event;

I see bunch of monks in hooded robes with torches surrounding you, chanting.

While you stand in the middle casting a magic spell that signs the note.

And then you walk outside with the note, and get on a soapbox, take a bullhorn and shout the thing out loud.

The reason I imagine it this way is because we are performing a highly advanced ritualistic practice, its just happens to be done in an automated fashion by computers, so there is typically less torches and chanting going on. But all the signing and verification that happens in the back ground might as well be long drawn out serious processions in some ritual of old.

Apparently its something that evokes some sacred sentiments in me, while at the same time my perspective on publishing is highly profane; loud, needy and a somewhat obnoxious exponent of a craving for attention, desperately going out in all directions in search for an audience.

Perhaps its because signing is a very deliberate commitment to the particular, where as publishing is surrendering control and handing it over to generality.

And then I look at my feed with a bunch of ‘GM’s , I laugh while I wonder if you guys are, or I am, the silly one.

Would your posting behavior change if you would go though some serious ceremony focused on the fact that you are wielding a name, each time you post?