rustyjames wrote:One would think that a heads up to the faithful forum members would have been the proper thing to do. Thank you.
rustyjames wrote:One would think that a heads up to the faithful forum members would have been the proper thing to do. Thank you.
steves1977uk wrote:rustyjames wrote:One would think that a heads up to the faithful forum members would have been the proper thing to do. Thank you.
I agree, his few members must be wondering what happened to his forum. There wasn't any announcement as such that he was shutting it down. There was one lady from Aus (Judi?) asking for advice on which chair to pick and Mark never replied to her thread when I last looked before it went offline.
Steve
RollPositive wrote:steves1977uk wrote:rustyjames wrote:One would think that a heads up to the faithful forum members would have been the proper thing to do. Thank you.
I agree, his few members must be wondering what happened to his forum. There wasn't any announcement as such that he was shutting it down. There was one lady from Aus (Judi?) asking for advice on which chair to pick and Mark never replied to her thread when I last looked before it went offline.
Steve
I got Judi a while ago when I noticed Mark was not helping her...Perfect example of Marks BS that he is here to help...She had a Pride chair that was breaking down and looking for a new Edge feedback vs Frontier V6.
I put here in contact with Frontier and she is working on getting a new chair.
One less person in an Edge is a win for those potential customers!
Holy hell, an Edge vs a V6??? That's like comparing a mini gocart to a monster truck. Yes, the V6 is larger but 1000X more capable and durable. Its no contest.RollPositive wrote:
I got Judi a while ago when I noticed Mark was not helping her...Perfect example of Marks BS that he is here to help...She had a Pride chair that was breaking down and looking for a new Edge feedback vs Frontier V6.
I put here in contact with Frontier and she is working on getting a new chair.
One less person in an Edge is a win for those potential customers!
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wheelchairjun ... ine&ia=web First result in that search suggests Mark was going offline for a while, was this a recent post as I never saw it
Steve
hobie1dog wrote: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.
MenCallMeGimpy wrote:I read one of his regular "innovation" articles on NM, which was basically a puff piece about iLevel, the Whill Chair, and some other guff. It prompted me to post on WCJ, asking Mark why meaningful innovation in the power chair industry was so glacially slow. That prompted him to go into full-on schoolmaster-condescension-mode, complete with personal remarks about my "cynicism" and unfounded observations about my view of the world. It seemed a very strange response to a pretty simple question about the obvious shortcomings in the tools available for the disabled, and indicated to me that he may be a couple of Pimm's short of a regatta.
At a later date, I advised (I presume) another forum member about the differences in programming levels available for chair controllers. This sent Mark into virtual apoplexy, full of ad hominem attacks, rants against "hobbyists meddling where they don't belong," the non-existence of OEM dongles (like the one plugged into the PC from which I composed the original post), and the damage such uninformed advice did to other forum members.
I read one of his regular "innovation" articles on NM, which was basically a puff piece about iLevel, the Whill Chair, and some other guff. It prompted me to post on WCJ, asking Mark why meaningful innovation in the power chair industry was so glacially slow. That prompted him to go into full-on schoolmaster-condescension-mode, complete with personal remarks about my "cynicism" and unfounded observations about my view of the world. It seemed a very strange response to a pretty simple question about the obvious shortcomings in the tools available for the disabled, and indicated to me that he may be a couple of Pimm's short of a regatta.
At a later date, I advised (I presume) another forum member about the differences in programming levels available for chair controllers. This sent Mark into virtual apoplexy, full of ad hominem attacks, rants against "hobbyists meddling where they don't belong," the non-existence of OEM dongles (like the one plugged into the PC from which I composed the original post), and the damage such uninformed advice did to other forum members.
MenCallMeGimpy wrote:I read one of his regular "innovation" articles on NM, which was basically a puff piece about iLevel, the Whill Chair, and some other guff. It prompted me to post on WCJ, asking Mark why meaningful innovation in the power chair industry was so glacially slow. That prompted him to go into full-on schoolmaster-condescension-mode, complete with personal remarks about my "cynicism" and unfounded observations about my view of the world. It seemed a very strange response to a pretty simple question about the obvious shortcomings in the tools available for the disabled, and indicated to me that he may be a couple of Pimm's short of a regatta.
At a later date, I advised (I presume) another forum member about the differences in programming levels available for chair controllers. This sent Mark into virtual apoplexy, full of ad hominem attacks, rants against "hobbyists meddling where they don't belong," the non-existence of OEM dongles (like the one plugged into the PC from which I composed the original post), and the damage such uninformed advice did to other forum members. I realized then I was dealing with a full-bore loony, so I stopped visiting WCJ.
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