Is there a way to set up my 'feed' preferences to NOT show hubs 'shared' by the owner of the hub?

Giselle:There may be an answer to this question in the hubpages learning section or FAQ,s. However I do not remember coming across this question there, or do I have the answer for you . I do not think you can do this, but I may be wrong.

I can tell you, that one person on hubpages who would be able to answer this question, besides many other hubbers here on hubpages is Glenn Stok. Shoot an email over to Glenn and I'm sure he will be more than glad to answer your question for you-no problem, unless someone answers it before hand. Good luck with this.Jl.

I haven't found a way to filter out all the old stories shared by a writer, but you can go to the X on the right side of the story and select "hide this story" individually. I do this sometimes when I have a whole list of shared old stories from the same writer. Sometimes it's useful to see a writer share one of their older hubs as they may have published it before you became a follower, or you may have missed it the first time around.

This is one reason why I will do it occasionally. But I know what you mean about mucking up the home page. I dislike seeing 6 shared old stories by the same writer on my home page every day, especially if they take over space that might be otherwise used by some new material.

Then a decision has to be made to either unfollow the writer or deal with each story on an individual basis. While you can apply some filters in the accounts- activity section of your page, I think this might not be exactly what you are aiming at.

I actually do not think there *is* a way to block this without blocking the hubber in question totally.. I have on occasion shared one of my old hubs on a day when I do not publish-like I did with my Halloween films hub, but there are some people who share several hubs at a time.

I believe you can go to your My Account, click on Activity, then click on each tab and select what to follow such as which Hubs, Hubbers, Questions, etc. This should help you to be able to select what items you would like to see on your follow "feed". Good luck!

Thanks for all the answers I've gotten so far! For the record, I have no problem when it happens occasionally in contexts such as Flora and Ktrapp mentioned - usually in connection with seasonal events or something which has made an old hub suddenly more relevant. That seems appropriate.It is when my 'feed' gets mucked up and old hubs start 'drowning out' new ones often that it bothers me and that's why I wanted to set my feed preferences differently.

Interesting that we don't seem to be able to set our feed preferences to avoid this issue! I appreciate all the work-arounds people suggested, such as 'hide this story' etc.

Not that I know of. You can only block feeds from the entire person not particular feeds. This should be a cool update if it happens.

I don't think there is. My home page is constantly full of hubs shared by their owners. I think there is value in doing that sometimes like Flora mentioned, but that's about it.

If an old hub suddenly generates new comments then it will appear on the feed by itself, so there is no need to share it. I particularly dislike it because it "drowns" out newly published hubs. I published a new hub one day only to see it buried almost immediately by a great number of hubs shared by the hub's owner all at once.

Personally, I like to see the new hubs people I follow have just published so I bypass the home page feed and go into my account, then view hubbers I follow, and sort so that the most recently hubs published appear first in the list. But I seriously wish maybe there was a daily or weekly limit as to how many of one's own hubs could be shared because it really does deluge the home page feed.

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