# Why Beeminder likes cumulative graphs **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [February 10, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/why-beeminder-likes-cumulative-graphs/498 "2015-02-10T22:56:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/why-beeminder-likes-cumulative-graphs/498/5 "2020-07-06T20:37:26Z")
Thanks for bringing this up! It’s not crazy and I like how you’re thinking. I need to think harder about whether I agree. Doing do-less as non-cumulative graphs would be a big change and needs a [proper spec](https://blog.beeminder.com/specs) or at least some sketches of how the graphs would look and how they’d change from one day to the next, how you can visualize imminent derailment, etc. > [@katriel](#): > > contrast the yellow brick road (is it still called that?) For now at least, we’re still talking about “following the yellow brick road” even though it’s really “stay on this side of the bright line”. More discussion on that: > [@Let's never say "Yellow Brick Half-Plane" again](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/lets-never-say-yellow-brick-half-plane-again/6874): > > In the [recent thread about jargon](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/does-beeminder-use-too-much-jargon/6702), Danny made a promise: oh my goodness, yes of course “yellow brick half-plane” is just a codename, not something newbees ever need to see. … So when the transition is done there will be no concept of “yellow brick half-plane”. It will just be how Beeminder works. Again, the name is only needed for the transition. Then he went and wrote a blog post about the yellow brick half-plane, right where the newbees can see it stuck_out_tongue To celebrate our new te… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/why-beeminder-likes-cumulative-graphs/498)._