The title says it all. 
Motivation:
I don't want to suffer "the cost of consuming network quota" to eliminate the annoyance of having items flagged as unread when I am not interested in the topic.
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If you're thinking of some kind of "mark as read" button, I don't think Discourse (powering this site) has such thing.
Some suggestions:
- Read the New topics you're interested in. Then click "Dismiss New" in the top-right to clear everything else.
- At the bottom of a topic you previously read, change from
"Tracking" to "Normal". This stops it popping up in Unread. - Mute categories you don't want to see.
- (Enter a category, change the in the top-right)
- (Enter a category, change the
- Change your preferences to adjust when you track topics.
- (Top-right avatar menu → Preferences → Tracking)
- Maybe yours is set to "Immediately"?
- If it's something like "After 3 minutes", you can go in and out of a topic, and won't see it as new/unread unless you spent a bit of time showing an interest in it.
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Thank you, Luke.
I think that option is the likely best fit or what I want. I will confirm that with the next group of new postings.
P.S. I don't see the "Dismiss" button at this time.
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I found this on the Discourse forums.
You can dismiss unread posts so that they don’t show up on your unread list and dismiss new posts so they don’t show on your new list (so this is what counts as Inbox:0 on Discourse–I’m inbox:0 here and on my email accounts, where I regularly archive email messages without reading them, removing them from the inbox), but you can’t mark them read without reading them.
Discourse gives users credit for reading and posts credit for being read. If the user didn’t read the post then they don’t get credit for reading it. If the post isn’t interesting enough to read, it doesn’t get credit for being read.
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This is what my page looks like:
I don't see a "Dismiss" option anywhere, even under the various headings, either at the left or a the top. 
Your screenshot shows Latest page view. If there were new messages and New page view link were clicked, then you could see Dismiss button.
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Thanks Stephen , I will give it a try too. No offense but I have no interest in rasberry pi and don't need notifications on those.
Eric, click on your icon (top right), the very bottom has Dismiss.
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Sorry, Eugene. That solution only works if you don't read any items.
The minute you read any one item, that "Dismiss New" button disappears. And ... that seems to apply to ALL categories !!!
Is there any way for the administrators to "toggle" functionality for that button to be "Always Displayed" ?
That way, you can have visibility of the previously read items until you choose to "Dismiss" any that are still unread.
Also, any way that "Dismiss" function can be assigned to each "Category" individually ?
Is that possible ?
By design, "New" is for things you haven't seen yet. As soon as you open that topic, it's out of the 'new' list. It might appear under "Unread" (with a similar "Dismiss" button again) depending on your preferences. Those tabs only show if there's something new/unread.
There's nothing we can change, it's how Discourse works.
Your preferences may determine the behaviour, located here:
So, if you tend to start reading new topics (in "New"), but always want to know if more is added to the discussion (in "Unread"), set the tracking to "immediately".
Or set the to "Tracking" before leaving the topic - that makes topics with replies you haven't seen appear in Unread:
Yes, you can select a category to the left:
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