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Too many notifications

I was a member of a 'game' which was really just a way for people to find dnd 4e games for a month or two. I recently left because it gave me too many notifications. I now believe I probably have hundreds built up, and whenever I delete the 10 that are shown, more appear to take their place. Is there a way to get rid of ALL my notifications?
Sharpe V. , there is currently no way to delete all notifications at once, however, I'm told that there is a "delete all" button that is coming in the next update.
What annoys me is that every new message in a thread gets its own notification. I'd like to hear about the thought process that went into this from the point of view of the programmers/developers/designers on this:  What are the pros and cons of notification by thread vs notification per post?
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Pat S.
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I figured it was when the site just started out there was not that much activity so it was just a simple notification as needed. Now it has taken off and the devs are busy with bug hunts, updates on the gameplay code, adding additional gameplay features that everyone is clamoring about, that little bit of code might have been overlooked. True it is irritating if you are in a very active thread but there is a work around fix coming out soon. It is treating the sympton not the problem method but at least they are trying.
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Pat S.
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I figured it was when the site just started out there was not that much activity so it was just a simple notification as needed. Now it has taken off and the devs are busy with bug hunts, updates on the gameplay code, adding additional gameplay features that everyone is clamoring about, that little bit of code might have been overlooked. True it is irritating if you are in a very active thread but there is a work around fix coming out soon. It is treating the sympton not the problem method but at least they are trying.
The problem with this is: You get 30-40 notifications in a super active thread (I had that once) over night or so. You eventually will just click dismiss. And then there's more. More dismiss. Oh look, 10 more agian... Oh wait, wasn't that one I just dismissed for another thread? Damn which one was that? Most people (I assume at least), as soon as they go into a notified thread find the first post that was updated and then read the entire thing to the end. They will not read one post, then go through the notification system to the next post right below it. So once you enter a thread, no matter if you went to the thread manually or through the notification, it should automatically dismiss ALL notifications linked to that thread. Also it would be nice if it allowed you to "Stop following this Topic" for game-forum posts, like you can do on the actual forum. Then at least you can turn of notification for "spammer threads" that you check regularily anyway.
How about instead of OnUpdate:SendNotification, it's OnUpdate:If(Notification><Unread){SendNotification}?