> Server admins are just NPCs providing @everyone announcements from time to time, to keep the player engaged. Sometimes you get a quest from them.

Maybe you should join better servers. I'll also add that this was common back in the forum days too. Most admins would just... admin the site.

> Also: 99% won't read profile bios (and you have to pay for actual customization, don't you?) while forum signatures were front-and-center.

Wrong on both counts.

> I have to say I'm surprised to see Discord mentioned as an opposite to social media instead of... just yet another iteration of the same.

I did not present it as an "opposite to social media" - I presented it as a counter to the idea that we've lost the personality GP is talking about

You're one of the 1% who reads profile bios.

Of course, because the alternative - that they're wrong, and more people actually do read bios - couldn't possibly be true.

In any case, I see no reason to believe any higher % of people paid any particular attention to forum signatures back in the day.

“Paid attention”, you're probably right. Seen them enough to remember? Forum signatures were far harder to miss than Discord bios.