Ugh @ the new Diesel Action... Rant alert

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Originally Posted by QuickDraw

Congrats to DieselAction for dropping a few grand ( I'm sure ) on the least user friendly piece of #%!* excuse for an affiliate section ever. What a fucking pain in the ass.. First, my old username and password that worked a couple weeks ago didnt work for their shiny new website so I had to re-sign up. No big deal, they switched to NATS from CCBill, makes sense. Unfortunately though, I recieved no confirmation email so a couple days down the road ( today ) I tried just logging in. No such luck - their shiny new system doesn't support the newest Firefox. Well, it does actually but their shiny new system's browser sniffer apparently couldn't properly parse the user agent and thus threw an error page. So I log in through IE ( which I use only to check my Hotmail acct ) and go to get the new link codes... Single link code per page..?? Ok, no big deal, there's only like 10 sites. Now lets get the FHG's for the sites and import them.. Default campaign, check off all sites ( no select all ), both types ( pics/movies - no both or select all ).. *click* ...24 fucking pages and no way to export them all. Ugh - fuck it, I'll get the link codes for Camilla18 ( hawt ) and to hell with the others.. not even going to fuck with them. I hate to pick on DieselAction, because imho I would say the MAJORITY of all sponsors' systems are a pain in the ass, but theirs is one of the worst.

ANYWAY - Some friendly advice for sponsors who don't want to create work for their affiliates and thus, potentially, discourage them from promoting their sites:

1. Please make sure your username / password forms work on all pages of your website, ESPECIALLY the front page. I know of at least a couple that after entering what I KNOW is my user / pass, access is denied and I am redirected to the 'try again' page.. where the same user / pass that didn't work on the front page, now works perfectly.

2. If I misplaced my username / password.. please don't make me email you to retrieve it! There's quite a few sponsors out there that do not have password retrieval systems.

3. Especially for CCBill sponsors that cookie your affid - make sure you're not accidently padding our affiliate id's with spaces or any other characters and therefore giving us link codes that don't work.

4. Do not make us go to a new page for every fucking link code we want to generate. ( DieselAction )

5. If you're going to have a FHG/HFS export tool, allow us to pick what fields we want you to generate.. I don't want to spend all day deleting sitenames, prewritten descriptions, number of pics or any other info you think I might want.

6. With reguards to export systems, especially FHGs/HFSs - if you have a system set up to use variable content on variable templates, GREAT! Noone wants shitloads of the same gallery design with different content plugged into it but if I want ALL FHG's generated, that does not mean I want EVERY possible combination of content/gallery templates - aka DUPLICATE CONTENT. One link per set of content with a random template. FTVCash and those that use their system.. nudge nudge. Again, I don't want to spend all day deleting shit I don't want. Make it optional, not the default.

8. If a site doesn't work out, isn't selling for shit, merged with another site, or whatever. Please put SOMETHING in it's place. Redirect it, mirror one of your better selling sites, but don't just throw up a message stating that the site is no longer available.

9. Center and valign=top your designs where it makes sense ( most cases ). Not everyone uses 800x600 or 1024x768.

10. [ YOUR GRIPE HERE ]

Ultimately - K.I.S.S., we're affiliates, you don't need to impress us! But if you insist, impress us with your conversion ratios!

Hello there.

While we released our new version fully working with FHG database, download center and movie plugin and 2 new sites, we asked from our partners to send us their comments how to make the system better.
Thats also the reason why we have increased the payout to 80% and I thank to all our affiliates for cooperation in this matter.
We have created the system based on AJAX and latest verdsion of FF didnt support it but it was beyond our control. Right now they have released the library and since then Diesel Tools fully compatible with latest FF as well.


Password retrieval system is a great idea to add and it will be done shortly.
All new partners get their welcome emails immediatelly once signup is accepted. All wrong passwords tickets we got were due to use of old ccbill password in new system. Looks like we failed here to explain it and some webmasters got lost.

We dont pad any codes so if you mention DieselAction please keep the thread up to us.

Regarding the linking codes.
Its better for you if you use campaigns with your codes so you get much better and detailed stats. Spending 30 secs on creating something that will help you understand stats much much better, you cant call it a waste of time! We encourage to use this so we can together work on improvement in case you cant success with the site. We will think about adding it straight for those who wants to save the time hehe...

We did already released select all FHG and added back buttons everywere, and we are currently working on how to make export even more easier.

All the rest comments have nothing to do with our tools so please be more exact. We do have all the system working 100% and Soul Rebel meant that we are going to add more plugins in the near future but what we have now up is 100% functional.

We welcome any comments and we can add everything you want to it so bring your ideas and creativity on

Enjoy the sites, the 80% promo and try out www.laythekat.com caz such convertions you havent seen since 1999