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.