Is there a selection I can make so as to immediately implement the week delay to any changes (notably deletion of a goal)? In other words, prohibiting me from deleting a goal the day after I make it.
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Weaselproofing will do that! However, itās worth reading through what that means before you do that, because it has other effects too.
Itād be interesting to know if you decide against it and why, in case thereās a new feature idea in there. 
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Sorry about the super late response, weaselproofing seems perfect. From what I understand it will stop me from immediately deleting goals and it also makes it harder to make an āexcuse.ā Both of which seem like things Iād prefer for my beeminder goals.
I canāt find the weaselproof option in settings. On the blog it says itās under āadvanced settingsā but I donāt see an āadvanced settingsā option that I can navigate too. I know thereās a goal-specific āweasel proof meā option, but I would prefer to set it as a site wide default if possible.
Hi Daniel! Thereās no site-wide default for weaselproofing; it needs to be opted into on a per-goal basis. Itās really interesting that you expected a site-wide default ā do you know which blog post gave you the impression that there was one? Maybe we can edit that a bit and make things clearer!
(And of course, we can consider adding it as a feature, too! I think Iām personally hesitant about that because I see people weaselproof on auto-pilot already, and then realise ā after a derailment, when they want to call not-legit ā that they have no way to prove that they were in X place at X time or brushed their teeth after breakfast.)
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Blog post: Weasel-Proofing and the Definition of Legitimacy | Beeminder Blog
Not sure if it really needs to be changed, I just misunderstood mostly from this line: āUPDATE: The āweasel-proof meā checkbox is something you have to opt in to in advanced settings, not to be confused with the āI swear not to weaselā box that you have to check when pledging on goals.ā
For some reason the second half of that line mentioning it to be goal specific made me think the first option in advanced settings wasnāt goal specific. But now that I read it more closely I see that the second is while pledging on a goal, not in a goal page.
I do see the issue with a site wide weasel proof that you mentioned. I guess I would just want a way where it automatically forbid me from deleting goals shortly after I made them. I can just click the weasel button when I make a goal, that works well too.
Thank you!!
Oof, thatās quite old! @dreev, do you have any light to shed? Is there an account-wide button hiding somewhere that I know nothing of? Or did we get rid of it? Am I having weirdly specific amnesia? 
Ooh, thanks, yāall! I just added updates to that old blog post to clarify! (Donāt think we ever had account-wide weaselproofing.)