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The Activities tab is meant to provide a unified view of each constituents interaction history. Hence each time a constituent makes a contribution, attends an event, signs up /renews a membership, get's a bulk email, etc.... an activity record is created and inserted into the "story". Most CiviCRM users (and in general most CRM users) find this a useful feature - since it makes it much easier to understand how "one thing leads to another" (or doesn't).

That said, if this is not compelling to your client / users - the activity records are separate rows in their own table (civicrm_activities) - distinct from the actual contribution records (civicrm_contribution table). Activities inserted on receipt of a contribution have a specific activity type as well ('Contribution'). I think you could use the pageRun hook to suppress activities of this type.

Sorry for misdirect on pageRun hook. Since the table is retrieved via ajax that's not possible. Lobo and I discussed this - and we think the right approach is to change the activity type filter to a multi-select field, AND add a Display Preference and use that as the default for the filter.

Another community member posted an issue with patches which "partially" addresses this (but in a different way - which we don't think will be as useful / flexible): http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-10706

If you agree with the approach we've described - it would be awesome if you could pick up that issue and modify / extend the patches for 4.3 to do the needful. (Ping back here if you have other thoughts on how best to address this requirement.)