Alerts

Is there a way to cancel an alert if you visit the thread or other part of the forum it is alerting you about?

For instance, over the course of a few days, I have logged in and had messages and posts to subscribed threads. I checked them all out over those few days and yet today, I had accumulated a few Alerts telling me of those things which I already visited

Not sure you understand what I'm saying. I WANT to be alerted that they have replies. But after I visit the threads in the alerts, I want the alerts to go away since there really isn't anything to alert me about anymore.

I know I can simply go click on the alerts link and they'll go away. IDK, just something to gripe about. I'm in a griping mood. I will say that I am liking the new site though. It's growing on me!

What I'm saying is, I have a bookmark that takes me to "Unread Watched Threads". So when I visit the site via that bookmark I see the Alerts talk bubble and whatever threads may have replies to them listed. So I click on the thread without touching the Alerts bubble and proceed to read the replies. Then upon returning to the site later and having no new replies, the Alerts bubble is still there to tell me there are replies to threads that I have already read on the previous visit.

What should happen is that the site knows that you have visited the threads/PM's that the Alerts were telling you about and thus, the Alert bubble goes away on it's own. It's really no big deal to click on the bubble real quick to make it go away, but sometimes I forget and the first thing I see on the next visit is the Alerts bubble and think "Wow, action!...ahhh damn, it's just the bubble from last time..."