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FlowersInHisHair says...

That's not the proposed solution, though. The main idea is to keep control of your own story by explaining to your audience, not to the troll, what the truth is. But there is really nothing wrong with pruning remarks from people who are only trying to rile you or your audience up for their own amusement (true trolling). That's not the same as shutting down all contrary views, it's refusing to tolerate lies and unreasoned arguments that attempt to divert the conversation on a tangent.

entr0py said:

That was a good description of why that form of argument is successful, but the proposed solution seems unsatisfying. I mean, if you just shut down all contrary views by deleting the posts, banning the posters or ignoring them, it makes it seem like you're just trying to build a comfortable echo chamber. I feel like you've got to preserve the willingness to consider that you might be wrong, even when confronted with trolls.

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FlowersInHisHair says...

He's just doing it for kicks, to show that he can, for some internet lols. It's not supposed to be a highbrow artistic endeavour.

ChaosEngine said:

But I'm not questioning his playing ability, I'm questioning the choice to do it in the first place. Or more specifically, the choice to try and REPLICATE the sound of the original.

Russian parents made you learn Piano? Improvise!

FlowersInHisHair says...

Well, yes, a guitar can do things that a piano can't and the pitch-shifter doesn't quite achieve the right timbre but the point is that he's adapted a piano to sound like a fairly convincing facsimile of an electric guitar; the playing of the piece is secondary to that. The achievement is how much the piano now sounds like an electric guitar, given how different the instruments are. It's not a bad version of that guitar solo, it's a good version of the solo considering it's being played on an instrument that's normally unsuitable for playing it.

ChaosEngine said:

To play Devil's advocate... why do this?

He's essentially playing a bad version of that guitar solo.

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FlowersInHisHair says...

People believe the world is flat because they want to believe it. For fun, or because they are conspiracy-minded, ignorant or superstitious, or because they like to feel like they're in on some secret knowledge, or simply ideologically driven.

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