Broken...

[MenCallMeGimpy]

http://www.wheelchairjunkie.com/ now redirects to https://powerchairdiaries.com/

It's looking like Mark have either closed his forum or has serious issues with his hosts.

Steve

Maybe Pride weren't getting the revenue boost they expected from allowing Mark to play savior on his "independent" forum. I guess all those freebies from "his own pocket" hit the bottom line, with no net increase in sales of Pride products. Pride marketing decided the money could be better spent elsewhere.

[Rollin Positive]

One less place to get BS Pride marketing lies!!!

Its for the better he had no idea how to take it to the next level.

I would not link it to power chair diaries....last thing we need is to hear someone else tell us how to live our life.

A personality disorder characterized especially by an exaggerated sense of self-importance, persistent need for admiration, lack of empathy for others, excessive pride in achievements, and snobbish, disdainful, or patronizing attitudes.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical ... 20disorder

[Burgerman]

It will be back. Eventually...
How else will he troll his own site and reply to all his "Jeffs"?

[Gnomatic]

Looks like "Jeff" didn't even bother using a VPN.

[hobie1dog]

A personality disorder characterized especially by an exaggerated sense of self-importance, persistent need for admiration, lack of empathy for others, excessive pride in achievements, and snobbish, disdainful, or patronizing attitudes.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical ... 20disorder

Thanks for posting this for us....exactly what I was looking for to describe my good friend.

[Rollin Positive]

• Have charisma or charm that they use to get people engaged.

• Tend toward grandiosity – big ideas, big stories, big visions.

• Take credit when things go right and point fingers when things go wrong.

•Self-serving.

• Lack empathy; narcissists are unable to see things from another’s point of view.

• Exhibit a sense of entitlement.

• Total lack of personal insight into their emotional selves.

• Skillfully re-craft the past to suit their own needs.

• Speak of emotions, but their experiences differ from that of people with empathy.

• Never apologize when it would be appropriate to do so.

I dont think I have ever met someone that was always right as much as Mark claimed to be and never ever apologized for misleading and being misinformed.

[Burgerman]

Sounds exactly like trump. Thank you.

[motoman]

Sounds exactly like trump. Thank you.

And Obama

Wonder where everybody will go for free batteries?

[steves1977uk]

It's funny because those 'Jeff' trolls reminds me of the early Yahoo chatroom days. There was a guy who called himself 'Willy' and he used to try and run down disabled people by saying how we can't do things a 'normal' abled-bodied person can. I used to take the pi$$ outta him and feel sorry for him for having nothing better to do in life.

Steve

[hobie1dog]

Sounds exactly like trump. Thank you.

And Obama

Wonder where everybody will go for free batteries?

Trumps new budget cuts 8 Billion from Medicaid alone, bound to have wheelchair cuts.

[Gnomatic]

Trumps new budget cuts 8 Billion from Medicaid alone, bound to have wheelchair cuts.

Not to be a nag, but Trump's "healthcare" bill, which just recently passed the House, cuts over $800 BILLION USD from Medicaid over its first 10yrs if it becomes law. If it passes the Senate, it's not just wheelchair funding for disabled adults that will be cut .....

[Burgerman]

Now is the time to help yourself as much as you can. Buy cheap decent chairs on sites like eBay and make them mechanically sound. Get 2 or 3. Because those cheap eBay chairs are going to vanish rapidly, and become expensive. Or unavailable. Once people start being refused adequate replacements or offered cheaper or unsuitable manual ones. Because the shit is going to hit the fan. Same with any other equipment you need.

I have 6 chairs. 4 ready to use. One new and expensive. Most were eBay, about 3 to 5 hundred only. Be very selective and watch carefully. Or home built cheaply.

E.g. I bought a storm 3 brushless, with about a weeks actual use that had been stored in a shed for 500. Covered in dust, and has a set of brand new MKs just fitted! Obviously never saw any rain. Its original tyres still have molding bobbles... Its a backup sat in my garage. And connected to a cheap 2A float charger. Get em while they are still here.

[woodygb]

I was in two minds. He may be a bit of a mentalist because of his disability. If you look at the wiki page on his issue its says as much. Do you ban someone because of a disability side affect they cannot control? But if it happens again he is gone along with his posts. I have had worse that many never see that are also gone and a repeated spammer that is promoting a self balancing segway powerchair clone also banned twice in the last 2 days.

Going to check out his email and IP and see what I find.

His IP 216.37.128.1 that he registered from resolves to kennedy.pridehealth.com A subdomain of a forwarding address. (And the http://www.pridehealth.com forwards to pride mobility...)
http://www.ip-address.org/lookup/ip-loc ... 6.37.128.1

His email address search is only shown here... So likely a throwaway.

Data from IP:
IP Address: 216.37.128.1
IP Host: kennedy.pridehealth. com http://www.pridehealth.com/
Find IP Address Location for 'My IP' 216.37.128.1
Continent: North America (NA)
State: Pennsylvania
City: Pittston
Postal Code: 18643
Area Code: 570
Metro Code: 577
ISP: Frontier Communications
Organization: Frontier Communications
Continent Lat/Lon: 46.07305 / -100.546
Country Lat/Lon: 38 / -98
City Lat/Lon: (41.3656) / (-75.8396)



Out of interest, where does mark work/live? Wasn't that Pennsylvania? So its someone at pride, and probably mark? So I wont ban him. Lets see what happens now we know that he is both our troll AND his own! Cant really ban someone for wishing himself cancer! How sad he is. This site must really wind him up!

If you take the now powerchairdiaries link... you'll see that his tweets come from Shavertown, PA ...which is about 7 km from the lookup ip location.

[Burgerman]

Yes he is the troll without a doubt. Somewhat embarrassing for him.

[CPguy]

@ Burgerman: You made my day with that news!

[Burgerman]

Well its still down. Maybe for good.

https://powerchairdiaries.com/about-mark-e-smith/ Why does he always talk about himself in the 3rd person?

Found this at his IP address: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3204706 ... 312!8i6656

Pride Mobility corp. Opposite Cuz's catering... All in the middle of nowhere.

[rustyjames]

If I was a betting man, I'd bet that the forum days at WCJ is over.

[steves1977uk]

Still don't see why Mr. "Thank you!" Smith couldn't have signed up here under his real name instead of using a fake name. If anything it makes him look stupid and no-one will believe a thing he post on his forum, if it ever comes back... Looks like he's cut his own throat due to his attitude.

I'd have more respect for him if he did sign up under his real name, and maybe help him if he had any questions.

Steve

[Burgerman]

But he cant do that. He seems to have a god complex. He has to be in charge and explain everything as the manufacturer representative know all oracle. Even when mostly he hasn't a clue. Its below him to actually ask and learn. Esp on here publicly! But if he wants to sign up and do just that and help where he DOES know stuff, he is still welcome.

I am the opposite way. Its true, I do know a lot of tech stuff and about a lot of things. But theres always more to know. And if I am wrong I will admit it and would be pleased to learn anything new. My brain is like a sponge, I live to learn new stuff and go out of my way to do so!

[Gnomatic]

I find this whole episode hilarious!

It obviously burns him up inside how he is talked about here if he is bothering to troll this board and his own! The thing is, he's got nobody to blame but himself. Many of us here were banned from his board, usually for some arbitrary nonsensical reason. Hell, I was banned from his board many years ago for a posting about a simple DIY chair mod that he decided he didn't like.

If you posted on that board about taking your mobility into your own hands and not just settling for what the wheelchair industry gives you, it would usually result in getting the banhammer. If you were lucky you might just get a warning followed by a bunch of patronizing comments.

I remember reading one of his rants where he was referring to members of this board as "wheelchair hobbyists" as though it were some derogatory term. Well, now we have a term of our own for him. Bitter Troll.

[Burgerman]

Well this board wouldn't exist, other than he banned me for the same reasons that you stated above. So he shot himself in the foot somewhat there. Now we have a mountain of traffic, and all his members! And loads of others too. And the only people I ban are spammers usually.

[Rollin Positive]

Your GPS link is the Pride Corp office.


http://www.pridemobility.com/contact.asp


Pride Mobility Products® Corporation is the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of mobility products. The Pride® family of companies also includes Quantum® Rehab, a leader in complex rehab power chairs.

182 Susquehanna Avenue
Exeter, PA 18643

When one thinks your smarter then the rest of the world you believe in your own ability!

What makes it worse if it was just a normal employee and you brought it to Pride HR that person would or should be fired for there violating most company social media policies!

Some of the basics are:

Most mandates its employees to freely disclose their affiliation with the company granted that disclaimers are set freeing the company from any intellectual investment in the post.

Dishonorable content such as racial, ethnic, sexual, religious, and physical disability slurs are not tolerated.

[terry2]

Trumps new budget cuts 8 Billion from Medicaid alone, bound to have wheelchair cuts.

Not to be a nag, but Trump's "healthcare" bill, which just recently passed the House, cuts over $800 BILLION USD from Medicaid over its first 10yrs if it becomes law. If it passes the Senate, it's not just wheelchair funding for disabled adults that will be cut .....

If you haven't got it, you can't spend it. Obama\Clinton added $10 trillion to the national debt.

[Burgerman]

As all socialist governments always do. Yet socialists still never seem to get it.

They all think theres a magic money tree, and everyone that doesn't have any value or produce anything in society, should get some anyway. And that the rich should share their money with the poor. The result is always the same. The more socialist the government, the poorer that country becomes, and eventually it goes bankrupt.

While there were 50 plus socialist countries after WW2, theres now just 4 or 5 left. Venezuela, and North Korea and Cuba with 50 year old cars and empty shops. And those are doing marvelously too!

As I said. If socialists understood even basic economics, there would be no socialists.

[Gnomatic]

Trumps new budget cuts 8 Billion from Medicaid alone, bound to have wheelchair cuts.

Not to be a nag, but Trump's "healthcare" bill, which just recently passed the House, cuts over $800 BILLION USD from Medicaid over its first 10yrs if it becomes law. If it passes the Senate, it's not just wheelchair funding for disabled adults that will be cut .....

If you haven't got it, you can't spend it. Obama\Clinton added $10 trillion to the national debt.

And G. W. Bush added $6 trillion to the national debt all by himself. Your point?

[hobie1dog]

Back on track:

I got fitted for my new powerchair this morning and they had a wheelchair magazine called "New Mobility ". In the News section they featured an article called- NM Contributor Removed from America Airlines Flight...has a picture of Mark telling his story.

[snaker]

While there were 50 plus socialist countries after WW2, theres now just 4 or 5 left. Venezuela, and North Korea and Cuba with 50 year old cars and empty shops. And those are doing marvelously too!

Do you mean "communism" and "communist country"? Things that are happening in North Korea are similar in VN in the period 1954-1990 and I can say it's not the socialism nor communism nor any other "ism". It's just a mess when a country is governed by a group of mental patients known as "leaders". The American Trump looks very close to our "leaders" in that period.

[Burgerman]

In absolute terms communism and socialism are the same. Except that communism is completely centralised, and socialism is controlled by local area. Like district or city councils etc. In both cases a pure example means there are no property rights. Your house/business/car etc is never owned by the individual. Everything is owned and run/controlled by the state. So no driving force to do anything...

That's the exact opposite to the west were home and property ownership is normal. The state does (should do) very little and own very little. And you get to keep anything you or your business earns, and everything in person, and business competes against each other in a free market. So each business must sell a better/cheaper widget to succeed. It drives development and expansion.

In reality each country is a mix of these two. But all the primarily socialist/communist ones gradually went broke, since it doesn't work and keeps people poor and they mostly admitted defeat and all went over to the capitalist way of doing things, or are in the process of doing so. You want shops packed full of cheap food/cars/other? You want to own a big house, car, pool? Capitalism. You want to be able to run a business, get rich, employ others to help you do so? Capitalism. You want heat? Roof? Car? Job? That's capitalism. But clean water systems, sanitation, a safety net for the sick, emergency services, military and good roads? That's often socialism, but the MONEY for this comes from the capitalism! Without which you cannot pay for it.

[Burgerman]

The politics of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam are defined by a single-party socialist republic framework, where the President of Vietnam is the head of state and the Prime Minister of Vietnam is the head of government, in a one-party system led by the Communist Party of Vietnam

This is what makes your country a "mess" as you put it. You are one of the few remaining socialist countries. A communist/Socialist republic. They are always poor. And everything difficult. And why getting a new adapted car locally, a good choice of powered wheelchair in your high street, house with pool or starting a business to make any of that a reality is all but impossible. And the cost of these types of things is unaffordable. But very common here in western Europe or the US even for the disabled or out of work. Capitalism made us all richer, and goods cheaper. Including the poor. and that allows even the disabled/or out of work "poor" to have a house/car/heat/food and live in a relatively comfortable fashion without anting much. You need to get yourself voted in! And change the system. Except that I think democracy isn't allowed... So making that a bit difficult.

North Korea is a similar but communist communist framework but far more extreme. And shut off. No communication with the outside world, and they actually have their great leader as their "god" and are otherwise atheists. As strange as this sounds. They actually worship him as a kind of living god. And they are fed continual propaganda about everything! So brainwashed to death and truly ignorant of the outside world.

[snaker]

Although the actual name of Vietnam is right "Socialist Republic of Vietnam" but people know it has not been socialist. In fact, its name was "Democratic Republic of Vietnam" after the Revolution 1945. Until now, people think the short time after the Revolution was truly democratic. Some info about Vietnam on wiki is outdated. If you travel to VN and ask a Vietnamese you meet over a street about "Communism", he/she might laugh as you drop from the Mars. We really do not care about "Communism". The current 'real' politics in VN are known as "red capitalist" or "capitalist of relations" (capitalist based on relations/corruptions). The biggest problem of VN that everybody can see is "a one-party system".