The Thrive forum Thrive may seem like a normal forum, and with well-oiled moderators that may seem like the caseā¦
Or is it?
This forum is riddled with spooky cases that are aught to make your spine crawl, stories bound to make your toes curl, and gruesome rumours guaranteed to make you glance backwards in a horrified fashion. This isā¦
The Thrive Vault of Paranormal Activity
Case #001 : The System
Once thought an error in the forum system, could it be something else? The system is recognised as a user, but an automated one. One that may automatically post a dev-update from time-to-time. Of course, the system has been spotted occasionally coming online, like a normal person. During these short periods, the āSystemā doesnāt appear to do anything other than stay idle. Or at least to those who cannot view behind the scenes. Theories vary from the System supposedly being an invisible moderator whoās disguise occasionally breaks, to the System being a hacker trying to bring down the forum. But the theory with the most credibility and evidence is that the āSystemā is something else. Not a newcomer, but an enemy of old. Thatās right. The System is none other thanā¦
Sorry to burst your bubble but @system is the account associated with full admin status, and when online itās not a bot or a ghost, but one of us who has the credentials logging onto it instead of our own account. This is usually to do something that requires the most permissions. It can also happen when we want to post something as the forum admin rather than using our own accounts.
My guess is that system shows up online when an automated task is being run as system. Otherwise it seems that whoever is logging onto systemās account is awfully active.
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It is no secret that RoboRomb has completely and utterly dominated the forum with his comments, but have you ever stopped to think about how he achieves this? This uncanny ability to appear everywhere at once is deeply disturbing, but his behaviour is quite similar to that of an electron. How? A newer diagram of an atom depicts the electron not on a fixed orbit, but rather a gradient of possible positions. RoboRomb operates in this fashion, existing in every thread at the same time (thus being able to magically respond to each comment simultaneously), with his gradient placed over the entire forum. Therefore, Roboromb is a sentient electron confirmed.
The Thrive Vault of Paranormal Activity 
