System

system (originally root) is a bot and administrator account on Inkblot. It was the first account created on the site and is the oldest member of the Original Three administrators along with devsock and Xiphon. It is not an actual user and is not human-controlled. However, it performs and is responsible for showing moderator actions that are carried out by the staff, delivering automated Private Messages about badges and other account information, sending official site e-mails, and other critical site functions.

For example, every time a moderator action is taken in a thread, system responds to that thread with a hidden post about what action was taken and the reason for it. The post intentionally cannot be unhidden (except by direct database interaction). You can refer to its bio or this article for all of the functions that it performs - although there are so many the article is not an exhaustive list.

system also acts as a testing ground for site features, including badges.

Messages
The full list of its messages would be exhaustively long. They are placed here for posterity.

Trivia

 * As the core account, first account, and oldest account of the site, system has some unique technical feats that no other account is allowed to have.
 * Its account is shorter than the 8-character limit as it was made before the limit was implemented (although other users have ended up sneaking past the limit regardless).
 * It has earned every badge and some that have not yet been released (the only account to do so).
 * It is completely immune to all user and moderator interactions and is completely exempt from any permissions checks.
 * It is the only account, other than that of staff members, that cannot under any circumstances be blocked or replied to by users (and doing so gets the message automatically deleted).
 * A PM cannot be sent directly to it.
 * It also cannot be closed, banned (temporarily or permanently), deleted, muted, postwiped, threadbanned, or otherwise affected in any way . (And if it is banned, it can still work.)
 * Attempting to follow system gives an (intentionally) sad error message . There are other unique errors that are exclusive to system.
 * It can neither be logged into nor logged out of.
 * It has no password - the only account that is permitted to do so.
 * It has an infinite amount of coins, forum posts, reviews, and stories.
 * It has no join date - not even the default value of January 1, 1970. This is because the join date was removed after Xiphon's account was created. Although this problem is not unique to it, system is the only account that still has this problem.
 * On the forums, system's join date is written as 4713 B.C., as a reference to the database system that powers the site.
 * Xiphon had thought about calling system "ib" (for Inkblot), but ultimately decided against it . He also rejected the even shorter "!" (which was registered by a user anyway.)
 * Xiphon calls system "super-chan" in reference to a well-known computing concept.
 * Xiphon thinks that system identifies as non-binary.
 * system has its own forum title and signature despite having never posted. The title and signature were originally chosen by an anonymous beta tester.
 * system was previously called root but was later renamed.
 * Ironically, although not being human, system has a user avatar and a forum avatar. It has been nicknamed "Sys-ko" by some supporters on the forum, a name that has already received mixed reactions from Xiphon.
 * There was once an unintentional glitch where it appeared as a null string ("") to any user who received one of its PMs. The glitch was later fixed.
 * There was a glitch where attempting to gift a badge to it would result in it giving you the exact same badge. This glitch was quickly exploited to rack up hundreds of badges until a patch was applied later.
 * An accidental query to the database ended up deleting system entirely on June 15, 2021 - the site crashed for two hours while Xiphon worked on fixing it. As a result, the users joked about how system literally couldn't be killed.
 * system is very similar to SharedModAccount in that both accounts are moderator accounts. However, the former only performs automated actions and cannot be controlled by anyone except administrators, while the latter can be used by any mod.