Question

You should distribute the new notifications in a different way (maybe put there the orange button and a red button).
The red button will just show the replies to your questions and the orange will show you all other type of notifications.

Or in another way:
When you are here: http://openstudy.com/notifications, let us see the type of notifications we want (like the gmail system in which you can see "every mail", "readed mails" and like that, but with this categories:
All, medal notifications, fan notification, reply notification