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AltShield never sends verification links by DM. When you join a server that set up a verification channel, you'll normally get a private thread there (visible only to you and staff) with a personal verification link. Either way, you can always get a fresh link yourself by running /verify in the server, or by clicking a "Verify" button on a pinned panel message if the server has one set up. To prevent spam, there's a 3-minute cooldown between requesting your own link this way - if you hit it, just wait a moment and try again. Staff can always generate you a link with /sendverify regardless of this cooldown.

Opening your link shows the "Requirements" the server has configured. Depending on the server, this can include:

• Nothing to do at all - some requirements (like a minimum Discord account age) are checked automatically from your Discord account.
• Signing in with Steam - a normal Steam login, used to check things like account age, owned games, playtime, account level, or VAC/Community/trade ban status. AltShield never sees or asks for your Steam password.
• Signing in with Twitch - a normal Twitch login, used to check account age, or (on servers that enabled it) whether you're subscribed to or banned on the streamer's channel. AltShield never sees or asks for your Twitch password.
• Signing in with Riot Games - the official Riot Sign-On (RSO) login, used to check things like your League of Legends summoner level, solo/duo rank, or match history. AltShield never sees or asks for your Riot password. This works whether you play League of Legends, Valorant, or both - your Riot account is the same either way - though the specific checks a server can require are League of Legends-only for now (see the Riot Games checks below for why).

Only the platforms the server's rules actually need are shown - if a server accepts more than one way to pass (for example "Steam OR Twitch"), you may not need to connect everything listed. A "Current status" section on the page shows which accounts are connected so far - it deliberately doesn't reveal whether that's actually enough to pass, so there's nothing to game. The submit button unlocks once there's nothing left you could still connect to change the outcome either way; verification happens automatically the moment that's true, so you rarely need to click it yourself.

Some servers also turn on a quick CAPTCHA as a basic anti-bot check right before the submit button. It's unrelated to the requirements above - solving it doesn't replace them, it just has to be done in addition before you can submit.

After submitting, you'll land in one of these states:

• Verified - you're done, the server's verified role is applied automatically.
• Not verified - one or more requirements weren't met; the page lists exactly which ones and why. If a server also has alt-account detection set to "Kick" or "Ban" and your account matches an existing one, you may additionally be removed from the server itself, not just left unverified.
• Awaiting manual review - you passed the requirements, but the server also has alt-account detection set to "hold for review", so a staff member needs to confirm your account manually. This is usually quick.
• Link expired - verification links are only valid for a limited time (set by the server). Run /verify again for a fresh one.

A server's requirements are built from individual checks combined with logic groups. Understanding the groups helps make sense of what a "Current status" list is asking for:

• ALL of (AND) - every check/group inside has to pass.
• ANY of (OR) - at least one check/group inside has to pass.
• AT LEAST N of - at least N of the checks/groups inside have to pass (e.g. "at least 2 of: Steam connected, Twitch connected, owns 5+ Steam games").
• NOT (single condition) - passes only when the one condition inside it does not pass.

These can be nested arbitrarily, so a server might require something like "Discord account 7+ days old AND (Steam account 1+ year old OR owns a specific game)".

Checks a server can use:

Discord checks

Check	What it means
Discord account age	Your Discord account must be at least a minimum age. Checked automatically, nothing to connect.

Steam checks

Check	What it means
Steam account age	Your Steam account must be at least a minimum age.
Steam account connected	Just requires signing in with Steam, no other condition.
Owns Steam game	You must own a specific game on Steam.
Minimum Steam games owned	You must own at least a minimum number of Steam games.
Min. hours played in a game	You must have at least a minimum number of hours played in a specific Steam game.
Min. total Steam hours played	Your total playtime across all your Steam games must meet a minimum.
Minimum Steam level	Your Steam level (from Steam Community XP/badges) must be at least a minimum.
No VAC ban	You must not have a VAC ban on your Steam account.
No Community ban	You must not have a Steam Community ban on your account.
No trade ban	You must not have a trade ban (or be on trade probation) on your Steam account.

A couple of these depend on your Steam privacy settings: if your "Game details" privacy is set to private, AltShield can't see your owned games or playtime at all, which looks identical to owning nothing. If a check involving games/playtime keeps failing unexpectedly, try setting Steam → Edit Profile → Privacy Settings → "Game details" to Public and verifying again. The verification page always tells you when this might be the cause. Your Steam level and ban status, on the other hand, are always public - they aren't affected by any privacy setting.

Twitch checks

Check	What it means
Twitch account age	Your Twitch account must be at least a minimum age.
Twitch account connected	Just requires signing in with Twitch, no other condition.
Subscribed to your Twitch channel	You must be an active subscriber of the server's connected Twitch channel.
Not banned on your Twitch channel	You must not be banned/timed out on the server's connected Twitch channel.

The two Twitch-channel checks ("Subscribed to..." / "Not banned on...") only work on servers where the server owner has connected their Twitch channel in the dashboard - if they haven't, those checks simply won't pass for anyone, with a message explaining why.

Riot Games checks

Check	What it means
Riot Games account connected	Just requires signing in with Riot Games, no other condition.
Minimum League of Legends summoner level	Your League of Legends summoner level must be at least a minimum.
Minimum League of Legends solo/duo rank	Your current League of Legends solo/duo ranked tier (Iron through Challenger) must be at least a minimum.
Has League of Legends match history	Your account must have at least one recorded League of Legends match - filters out brand new or never-played accounts.

These four checks are League of Legends-specific. Riot's own developer API doesn't currently offer equivalent Valorant checks (rank or match history) to any regular developer key - only "Riot Games account connected" and alt-account detection work for a Valorant-only account, since those only need your Riot ID, which is shared across both games. League of Legends data is also refreshed at most once a day per account (Riot's API has a daily rate limit) - if you've recently changed rank or level, it may take up to 24h to show up here.

1. Invite the bot to your server (link available from the Dashboard once you log in with Discord).
2. Run /altshield setup in your server, or open the server from the dashboard directly.
3. In the dashboard, configure:
   • Roles & channels - which role to grant on success, an optional role to give unverified members while they wait, a fallback channel for the verification thread, and a log channel for results.
   • Verification requirements - the rule builder described above, plus an optional CAPTCHA toggle that adds a basic anti-bot check before the submit button.
   • Twitch channel connection - only needed if you want the subscriber/ban checks; a one-time Twitch login for your own channel, separate from the login members do.
   • Alt-account detection - links a verified Steam/Twitch/Riot Games account to the first Discord account that used it, so a second Discord account reusing the same Steam/Twitch/Riot Games account can be blocked, flagged, held for manual review, kicked, or banned from the server.
   • Messages and Branding - customize the wording and (on higher plans) the look of the verification page.
4. New members can get a private verification thread automatically on join (if enabled and a verification channel is set), and can always request their own link with /verify, or by clicking a persistent panel posted with /verifypanel. AltShield never delivers links by DM.

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AltShield only ever uses the official OAuth login flow for Discord/Steam/Twitch/Riot Games - it never sees or asks for your password on any platform. What gets stored per verification session is limited to what the configured checks actually need: your Discord account age/ID, and, only if you connected them, your Steam ID / account age / owned games list (or playtime), your Twitch ID / account age, and your Riot ID/PUUID / League of Legends summoner level / solo-duo rank / match count.

If a server has alt-account detection enabled, your Steam ID, Twitch ID, and/or Riot PUUID (not your Discord messages or any other activity) may be compared against other verification attempts to catch the same real-world account being used to create multiple Discord accounts - either within that one server, or across every server using the same bot, depending on how that server configured it.

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