New Account Guard

New Account Guard (Account Age Guard) automatically blocks brand-new Discord accounts from accessing your server when they join. Accounts younger than your configured minimum age are immediately timed out or banned, preventing alt-account abuse and coordinated attacks using freshly created accounts.

How It Works

When a new member joins your server, InfiniTea checks their Discord account creation date against your configured minimum age threshold. If the account is too new:

1. The configured enforcement action fires immediately (timeout or ban).
2. An optional notification is posted to your staff channel.
3. The member is blocked before Global Watchlist evaluation occurs.

This runs before the Global Watchlist report evaluation on join, providing a first-pass filter based purely on account age.

Configuration

Gate Controls

• Enable Account Age Guard: Master toggle for the feature.
• Minimum Account Age: How old a Discord account must be to join without being blocked. Configurable in days (range: 1–365 days).

Enforcement Action

• Ban Instead of Timeout: When enabled, new accounts are banned rather than timed out. Use for zero-tolerance policies.
• Timeout Duration (hours): When not banning, how long the timeout lasts. After the timeout expires, the member regains access (assuming their account is then old enough on a re-evaluation, if applicable).

Notifications

• Notification Channel: Where blocked join events are logged for staff visibility.

Order of Operations on Join

When a new member joins, InfiniTea processes protections in this order:

1. New Account Guard — Account age check (fires first).
2. Anti-Raid — Join velocity/burst detection.
3. Global Watchlist — Cross-server report history evaluation.

If New Account Guard blocks a member, subsequent checks may not execute for that join event.

Use Cases

• Anti-bot protection: Most automated bot accounts are created immediately before raiding. Even a 1-day minimum blocks the majority.
• Alt-account prevention: Users banned from your server often create new accounts. A 7-30 day minimum makes this significantly harder.
• Event protection: Temporarily raise the minimum age before high-profile events or announcements.

Tips

• A 7-day minimum account age blocks most alt-account abuse without affecting legitimate new Discord users.
• Use timeout (not ban) if you want to allow new accounts to access the server once their account ages past the threshold.
• Always configure a notification channel so staff can manually review blocked joins and unblock legitimate members if needed.
• Combine with Anti-Raid for layered protection: Account Age Guard handles individual new accounts while Anti-Raid handles coordinated bursts.