# Feature request: store safety buffer

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/feature-request-store-safety-buffer/227>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [November 12, 2014, 4:57am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/feature-request-store-safety-buffer/227 "2014-11-12T04:57:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![chelsea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a3d4f5/32.png) [@chelsea](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/chelsea)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/feature-request-store-safety-buffer/227/10 "2014-11-13T01:08:14Z")

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> [@dreev](#):
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> Maybe the real question in your case is “how can I induce myself not to skate the edge so much?”

yup, pretty much! i’ve tried a few meta goals along the lines of @insti , but they haven’t worked great for me so far either. love the idea of automating it. half of my resistance is that i don’t want to send beeminder 4 datapoints every time i weigh in or whatever. it’s almost certainly just a matter of finding the right incentive/goal setup, and i haven’t yet. i might try the pledge stepdown of @pjh, that’s an interesting idea i hadn’t thought of.

> [@dreev](#):
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> unless I understand exactly how the freebees work, I’m actually making it more likely I’ll derail because I’ll know there is leniency and I’ll push things as far as I can which means I can accidentally push them too far

i think i disagree that the stored buffer is leniency, though. i earned the buffer; it wasn’t given to me freely because i decided i want 3 days off/month [1]. the rules would be 100% clear - you earn buffer, you have buffer, you can store buffer (if you want) and hide it from yourself. i do agree that i want to trick myself, but i want to trick myself into walking _more_ than i have to. i think i’m just more excited for orange → blue → green than 4 days → 5 days → 6 days, for whatever reason.

[1] nor did i pay for it. i briefly imagined a world where you could pay half your pledge to postpone your derailment 24 hours. but if you weren’t on track again 24 hours later, no mercy – you’re paying the postpone fee + your pledge. a fun idea that would surely fail spectacularly.

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