I just edited the entire post for easier reading.

I would like to set up deal alerts so that if a thread of a certain category reaches a certain rating, I would be notified. This way I can set up deal alerts for "apparel" and "2.5 thumbs up" or "phone" and "2 thumbs up." I say this because not all apparel threads have the word "apparel" or "clothes" in the original post....thus I would not be notified of the deal. Also I say this because a while ago, I was interested in buying some 5300 RAM (tech category). But I also got a whole ton of useless computer deals (system category) in my inbox.

So like in deal alerts, if somebody selects Hot deals, they should also be able to select a certain category (or all, which would be the same as right now). Do you guys think this could be done?

(It looks like you can filter by category, but when I click the category icons using Opera, the icons do not work. In fact when I hoever my mouse over the icon, I don't see anything that would lead me to believe it's a link. Is this a browser issue?)

I hope you find my suggestion to be useful.


My question about slickdeals links is that sometimes it redirects and before I get to the intended site, my Kaspersky blocks it so that it doesn't go through. Like if I click the circuit city jvc in ear headphones link, I would get this in my browser
http://clickserve.cc-dt.com/link/tplclick?mid=sduidp0t0&lid=41000000013459594&pubid=21000000000001971&redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.circuitcity.com%2Fssm%2FJVC-Marshmallow-Soft-Inner-Ear-Headphones-HAFX33B%2Fsem%2Frpsm%2Foid%2F163598%2Frpem%2Fccd%2FproductDetail.do%3Flinkid%3Dj13459594k1971%26affiliateid%3Dk1971%26mid%3Dsduidp0t720715

I also see qksrv.net/ (stuff)

and so I would have to go to the original page, copy the link location, remove the stuff that goes like http://slickdeals.net/?sduid=25068&t=720715&u2=, and finally be able to go to the normal circuitcity.com page. I've been doing this for about half a year (since I got Kaspersky) and I know I could probably just loosen up my restrictions (i prefer not to), but I would just like to know...what's up with the clickserve.cc-dt and qksrv.net links?

You links question is mostly answered in this FAQ (http://forums.slickdeals.net/faq.php?faq=sd_faq_item#faq_sdlink_faq_item). Many newer security suites are very agressive with their privacy settings, and block those sites. You would have to add them to their "whitelist" to prevent blocking.

As to deal alerts - that one of the things on the ToDo list, ability to add categories has been requested before. I don't have an estimate as to when it will be ready however, sorry.

In the meantime, it may be a good idea to try to create more complex alerts. So for your memory example, if you were getting alerts for laptops with DDR2 memory, you could set up "ddr2 5300 -laptop" alert, which would exclude posts which contain "ddr2" "5300" and "laptop" terms in title or body.