[quote=@Captain Jordan]
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I might suggest a different approach. When loading a thread where you have notifications, add a box to the page which lists out any notifications that originate from that thread, allowing users to visit each link (notifications will clear once you click on their directing link) and to clear all the notifications. 

This would avoid clutter on the notifications page, and bring pertinent notifications to the forefront when a user is viewing the topic in question. 
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I'm not sure I understand. The notifications would still be on the notification page as well, so that doesn't clear up the clutter. Or is your goal that when a user visits a thread where they get a lot of notifications (and thus they most likely visit it frequently), they can clear all the notifications of that thread alone, so when they actually visit the notifications page, they'll only have the more salient notifications?