# Slack category to show only replies in a specific Discourse category
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-category-to-show-only-replies-in-a-specific-discourse-category/103034
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** chat-integration
**Created:** [November 28, 2018, 11:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-category-to-show-only-replies-in-a-specific-discourse-category/103034 "2018-11-28T23:24:54Z")
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### Author:  [@Kyle\_Selby](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kyle_Selby)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2018, 11:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-category-to-show-only-replies-in-a-specific-discourse-category/103034/1 "2018-11-28T23:24:54Z")
I am trying to setup a slack channel where I can see all of the replies that happen within a specific category. The category is named “Knowledge”. I followed the instructions for setting up rules for a specific category and it is sending all information to a specific Slack channel like I wanted. The issue is I only want to see the post replies and not new posts created. Is there a way to do this? In the options for the Slack filters I only see the option to display “All posts and replies”.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-category-to-show-only-replies-in-a-specific-discourse-category/103034/2 "2018-11-29T16:35:18Z")
Unfortunately there is no option for “only replies”. The chat-integration options match up with the core discourse notification levels of “watching” and “watching first post”.
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### Author:  [@Kyle\_Selby](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kyle_Selby)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2018, 4:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-category-to-show-only-replies-in-a-specific-discourse-category/103034/3 "2018-11-29T16:41:53Z")
Okay thank you for the reply. Any ideas as to a way to accomplish this?
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-category-to-show-only-replies-in-a-specific-discourse-category/103034/4 "2018-11-29T16:52:30Z")
If you have some development experience, you could try creating a plugin which overrides this function:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat-integration/blob/master/lib/discourse\_chat/provider/slack/slack\_provider.rb#L129-L140](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat-integration/blob/master/lib/discourse_chat/provider/slack/slack_provider.rb#L129-L140)
You could add `return if post.post_number == 1` at the top, and then it would not send any messages for the first post in a topic.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2021, 12:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slack-category-to-show-only-replies-in-a-specific-discourse-category/103034/5 "2021-10-01T00:50:31Z")