[quote=@Mahz]
<Snipped quote by Shienvien>
I think you should just quote-mention. Clicking in to a quote-mention from the notifications menu clears it. Though I need to improve notification auto-clearing and allow users to delete specific notifications from the list. But altogether I think it's better to err on the extraneous side.

Eventually notifications will be auto-cleared when you view the page of a topic that created them, so it won't even be an issue. And I expect most people are happy to see a number next to the bell icon even if they were gonna check the topic anyways. I personally use notifications as a to-do list and often forget to respond to posts that don't notify me, so perhaps other people are similar.
[/quote]

Oh, huh, I totally thought it auto-cleared already. Hmm.