Wow, I'm surprised someone came up with this thread, but honestly, I'm a pretty private person, both on and offline and usually prefer visiting message boards and helping out with the Technodrome and Paradigm more anonymously. Krang and I made Paradigm City.com because we wanted to expand beyond the Technodrome (which we created because we were both childhood fans of the show) with an anime site, and Big O was one anime that we both were big fans of and also one that many people were familiar with. (For instance, some of you may know we're both also big fans of the anime/manga One Piece, but aside from its appearance in Shonen Jump, many people aren't familiar with it.) We both saw Big O initially on Toonami, and loved the style of the series, the mystery, the intriguing characters... (I don't think I need to convince anyone here that the show is cool.
) We kept the same "Technodrome" names because initially, we thought most of our members would come from our other site, and just wanted it to be clear we were the same people from the Technodrome. Looking back, we probably should have come up with new names for the new site, but why change them now?
Aside from Anime Jump's Big O forum, we also weren't aware of too many places to discuss Big O or the (at the time) upcoming second season. We wanted there to be a central information site as well as fun, active forums for other fans of this great series and when we started this site seemed like a great time since the series had a future to it. We think it's been working out great so far, and we're more than happy with how so many people really seem to enjoy the site.
We also balance the work of the site- as the "webmaster," Krang does the "technical" work you see on the site, including setting up/maintaining the forums, troubleshooting any forum or web problems people have as well as actually uploading the content onto the site. I'm the "content manager," or the one who comes up with crazy ideas for the site to try to keep things fresh (such as the trivia, quizzes, games etc) as well as person who reads or looks over everything submitted and makes the decisions of what to include on the site. We also are very happy to have regularly contributing members help us out with Paradigm, including Almasy, who submits screenshots and is great at helping us keep things in order, and all of our moderators: GK Version 1, R. Smith, Fallen Phoenix, dawnstrider, pen1300, Tetsujin, zhinphou, who really do a great job keeping this place running smoothly.
Also, we set up this forum so that people are free to give as much or as little personal information out to the public as they're comfortable with. So far, we think it works well for everyone.
Krang usually patrols as a ghost doesn't he?
