# Allow changing slope of goal during first week?

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/allow-changing-slope-of-goal-during-first-week/7022>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [July 17, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/allow-changing-slope-of-goal-during-first-week/7022 "2020-07-17T17:08:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![e70bc7aa68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a8b319/32.png) [@e70bc7aa68](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/e70bc7aa68)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/allow-changing-slope-of-goal-during-first-week/7022/1 "2020-07-17T17:08:51Z")

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I often get into a situation where I’m not entirely sure what the slope for a goal should be when first creating it, which often leads to some overly… optimistic slopes. Since it is already possible to delete a goal and recreating it during the first week, it would be a lot simpler to also allow directly changing the slope.  
I’m sure 90% of my deleted goals were goals which I have recreated with a different slope on the first day.

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**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/allow-changing-slope-of-goal-during-first-week/7022/2 "2020-07-21T17:24:39Z")

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Ah, thank you so much for asking about this. This is a big deal and something Beeminder needs to improve.

I guess the workaround for now is to always start a goal very conservatively and then ratchet to get rid of the excess safety buffer. Then you can pick a realistic slope to commit to when you’ve figured out what that is. The [prototype visual road editor](http://road.beeminder.com) may also be useful if you want to retroactively increase your commitment in light of your new data, keeping a nice smooth road instead of the ugly jump that ratcheting creates.