User blog comment:PsiCubed2/Are We Inadvertently Encouraging Salad Numbers?/@comment-27516045-20170606135249/@comment-30754445-20170608161703

Yes. This fact is part of why the list itself has such prestige. It's not just a list of random numbers. It's a very well thought-out system, and each one of those 15,000+ numbers have been "personally" picked by Sbiis in his "ladder". And most importantly: he was the first to do such a thing in such a thorough way.