IMPORTANT: Should we require biographies?

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basically dittoing everything said before me about why i voted no + a little addition from myself (which i know some points have been touched on but i tried to make mine still different)
people roleplay in different ways. there will be people who make bios for their characters before playing them because that's how they work. if someone feels better planning out their character(s) before beginning to write them, then that's on them. that's how they function and that's how they WILL function, whether there is a system enforcing them to make biographies or not. the same can be said for the other side - the people who feel better jumping in with characters without too much planning or thought behind them. they will post with the character and develop them based off of that, because this is how they function. making them create biographies will, i believe, just make it harder for them to create characters they can stick with.

i actually function better this way - figuring out a character as i write them. i always have VERY basic ideas before i begin, but they change based off how things go. the ONLY time i've ever stuck to a planned character was with goldenluxury - one time. i've tried to many times plan out characters for roleplay, even after sticking with goldenluxury, and this is the first and only time i have ever been able to keep at it.

forcing people to function in a way they normally cannot will harm the site.

i absolutely see where this idea is coming from. i know it is just an idea to hopefully help the site, but in my eyes, it will do more harm than good. i understand entirely that these biographies can be vague, have incredibly little detail; maybe not even have a personality attached, but this does not change the fact that they can prove to be a problem. plus, it feels a bit redundant to require biographies but then only have people write out very limited details. that isn't planning (which, from what i understand, is a big part of why this idea is brought up), that's describing the very basics of a character and it only wastes time both for the staff and for the roleplayers, in my opinion.