Is either thread idea approved?
Its a pretty clear ‘it would never work unless jay made the site enforce it’ for the new user thread vote.
For the tell others about yourself, i am indifferent, and there were several threads like that in the past, that you could probably start posting in to accomplish the same thing.
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Explain-Your-Username-Avatar-Title-Signature/id/12805
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Where-are-you-from/id/13569