Why are we allowed to modify or delete old data?

[Benjamin]

@philip

Of all the people I’ve shown my graphs and data to, not one of them has ever voiced a concern that I might have manufactured the trail of evidence. I guess maybe that credibility comes from me, rather than from the system.

I agree that there may not be any need to be able to edit old datapoints. (Counter-examples welcome!)

For my own goals, edits tend to happen only for the very recent past. Most often, it’s to fix something that I’ve mis-entered using the form or the app, or which one of my scripts has entered for today because I forgot to enter it yesterday.

Yeah, exactly, you should be able to edit for maybe 36 hours? After that, the data becomes permanent. This would give your Beeminder much more credibility.