# Feature request: store safety buffer **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32
**Author:** ![nikana](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/nikana/32/1567_2.png) [@nikana](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/nikana)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/feature-request-store-safety-buffer/227/32 "2019-01-30T12:42:18Z")
Disagree. > I’ve been calling this Beeminder’s no-free-lunch theorem, or the power of bright lines, and I’m working on a blog post about it. I’m fine with you _claiming_ a Beeminder no-free-lunch _theorem_, but could you fairly lay out the exact evidence, at least ? and maybe also actually word the theorem. At this stage honestly it looks more like the idea of a conjecture to me 😛 Sidetrack : what happened to the blog post ? can you update your post ? (which really looked like a “commit.to” trigger) > The reason I don’t like the specific solution of storing safety buffer is that it’s sort of trying to trick yourself (“I’m in the orange but I’m not really in the orange”) which I believe backfires. To me, storing safety buffer is _exactly_ trying to trick yourself, but you got the specifics all wrong ! It really goes **I’m not really in the orange, but please make me think I’m in the orange.** (To me) the whole point is the colors. I know I’ll react to red 95% of the time, so please, even though it’s blue, make it look like red (without the 5% chance that I’ll miss that I’d get by retroratcheting). Of course, this is only meant to be used _sometimes_, when I’m most likely to react to red, but wouldn’t feel like making progress on a green thing. Other communities call this “artificial deadlines” and have varied opinions about them which may inspire this thread ([unnecessary pressure](http://wiki.c2.com/?ArtificialDeadline), [useful technique](http://www.mikewchan.com/2016/09/3-ways-set-artificial-deadlines-get-sht-done/), [good for the creative types](https://medium.com/@amymswift/artificial-deadlines-86017eea63e5)). > I think better is to just cultivate your sense of alarm at seeing an orange or blue graph. Or a graph with less than a 7-day buffer (where it shows the day of the week instead of number of days on the graph image). Maybe all I’m asking for is a color for a 7-day buffer. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/feature-request-store-safety-buffer/227)._