User blog comment:Billicusp/Uggh/@comment-12.144.5.30-20160112070930/@comment-4224897-20160114220352

When I first read what you just said, I said aloud, "What?!" It is technically true that throwing in factorials or whatever into your number doesn't make it any smaller, but it's important to realize this—and you're probably gonna come up with a cheap rebuttal—googology isn't so much about coming up with the largest number as it is about coming up with the best ways to make large numbers. Best not only as in a powerful function, but a powerful function with a simple definition; it's important to realize the double meaning of "best" in what I said.

And disdain for salad numbers isn't just a "clique custom" or some shit. You seem to think everything people criticize about your numbers is just clique customs, like a guy doesn't like your sculpture because it doesn't follow the day-to-day life rules of his gang of people who sacrifice chickens to dark gods every week. If you read some of the posts in My number is bigger, you can see that some people have the same aversion to or at least recognition of the ineffectiveness of salad numbers. Don't believe me? I'll quote things people have said in that thread:

[in response to a salad number equal to (10^^^^^^^^^^10)! x (10^^^^^^^^^10)!^^^^^^(10^^^^^^10)!]

''Not one for finesse, are you? ''

The person who posted it took a moment to note this number's inelegance, which demonstrates that people will typically at the very least recognize salad numbers as kind of sloppy.

[in response to someone who "threw a factorial in there for good measure"]

(btw, the factorial in warriorness' number makes very little difference: applying Q one more time would produce a hugely vaster number.)

This quote also demonstrates recognition that applying a function to a number much larger than stuff that can be produced with putting smallish numbers into that function is ineffective. That's exactly the kind of thing you're doing, jumbling the mighty BEAF with the much smaller-scale Steinhaus polygons and multiplication. I mean come on.