I feel bad making you do all that, really. It was more the lack of personality details that was giving me a feeling like people wouldn't work very hard on character development and fleshing out than people choosing to keep bios revealed later, to be honest. organically getting to know characters is fine, the thing that sparked my frustration with the RP was a concern that people giving sparse details about their characters meant they either wouldn't develop them well or would make personalities and backstories that clashed with the setting or characters.

Maybe in order to preserve the organic nature we could just have people PM those details to you as GM?