# 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:** 34
**Author:** ![zedmango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c67d28/32.png) [@zedmango](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zedmango)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/feature-request-store-safety-buffer/227/34 "2019-01-30T14:57:37Z")
> [@nikana](#): > > Sidetrack : what happened to the blog post ? can you update your post ? Did you see: > **[Catch-up Unmustered; or, Easier is Harder](https://blog.beeminder.com/catchup)** > > Rule #1 of Beeminder: Things that make staying on the yellow brick road easier make reaching your overall goal harder. There’s no free lunch. Any leniency today will get paid for down the (wait for it) Road. If that sounds counter-intuitive,... And: > [@Should you let goals derail if you're going to do them after 12AM?](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/should-you-let-goals-derail-if-youre-going-to-do-them-after-12am/1515/3): > > Allow me to express my horror at that idea: :0 We’d honestly much prefer you reply to the legit check and explain why it wasn’t a legit derailment and we’ll undo it and stop the charge and everything (we won’t give you much of a hard time unless you weaselproofed it). Inaccurate data should feel like apostasy – anathema to the Way of the Bee. slight_smile Relevant: [blog.beeminder.com/cheating](http://blog.beeminder.com/cheating) There’s also the perhaps self-serving answer that when the pledge is just $5 it might not be w… I think it’s fair to call it a theorem at this point. If you always edge-skate you will absorb any buffer by definition. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/feature-request-store-safety-buffer/227)._