Ever thought of doing a reverse Beeminder?

[dreev]

Funny timing, we just blogged about that:

Contra Positive Reinforcement: Why Beeminder Is A Glutton For Punishment

There’s also some interesting debate about it in another forum thread:

Pro Positive Reinforcement: Zedmango's rebuttal

[[This was posted in the Common reactions to Beeminder thread but it was too much of a tangent there so I’m moving it here. I’m not sure if my admin powers let me change the post author to @zedmango but all of the following is by them! See also Positive reinforcement vs. punishment]] I don’t find that persuasive: Could Beeminder hold your money and give it back to you or use other tricks to reward you for success instead of punish you for failure? This phrasing is a bit of a straw man, sin…