# Mysterious little padlocks

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/mysterious-little-padlocks/1298>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [October 29, 2015, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/mysterious-little-padlocks/1298 "2015-10-29T09:46:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![drmaciver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drmaciver/32/80_2.png) [@drmaciver](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drmaciver)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/mysterious-little-padlocks/1298/1 "2015-10-29T09:46:59Z")

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After [the discussion](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/the-sliding-scale-of-mercy/1274) got me to change my exercise goal to no-mercy recommit, I decided that a new goal I set up today should also be.

But I can’t. ☹

For some reason there is a little padlock next to the “no-mercy recommit” box, I get a no-go sign when I hover over it, and I can’t check the box. What’s up with that?

It’s possible that this is there for a totally legitimate reason, but if it is then the bug is that I have absolutely no idea what that reason is and the UI doesn’t make it at all obvious.

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**Author:** ![bee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/bee/32/41_2.png) [@bee](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/bee)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/mysterious-little-padlocks/1298/2 "2015-10-29T09:56:19Z")

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![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/1X/04980da56e55a7dc47f91ad34094868ea8cfac66.png)

It’s definitely suboptimal to have the settings just left in amongst the regular (non defaulty) settings like this. The padlocks and the descriptive text were a cheap solution to “what should I do with these settings if they’re defaulty”?

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**Author:** ![drmaciver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drmaciver/32/80_2.png) [@drmaciver](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drmaciver)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 9:59am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/mysterious-little-padlocks/1298/3 "2015-10-29T09:59:39Z")

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Ah, I see. For some reason I read that and still completely failed to make the connection with the padlock.

I like that i can set this as a default though, thanks.

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**Author:** ![drmaciver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drmaciver/32/80_2.png) [@drmaciver](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drmaciver)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/mysterious-little-padlocks/1298/4 "2015-10-29T10:09:15Z")

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Thing that is still a bit of a cheap hack but might be useful: The hover text when you try to click it is still the standard “Do it! Or are you too chicken?” (which I’m not a huge fan of anyway TBH). It might be nice to change that to “You need to set this to non-default to change it”.

It might also be nice to just automatically turn off defaulting if you change it.

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**Author:** ![olimay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/olimay/32/4839_2.png) [@olimay](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/olimay)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/mysterious-little-padlocks/1298/5 "2015-10-29T23:56:09Z")

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How about making the padlocks also link to the defaults section of user settings?