I can rattle off half a dozen things to stop someone from doing that!
1. It ruins the Quantified Self aspect. You don't want to falsify your data.
2. You've set up an autodata goal and there isn't any (easy) way to cheat. Your Fitbit (or Habitica or Duolingo or Project Euler or whatever) just tells Beeminder how many steps got (or whatever your metric is).
3. Your graph is public, and ideally you've pointed friends/family to it. Are you going to lie to your friends and family?
4. It's just part of your identity as a Beeminder user. If you were the type to falsify your data to weasel out of a commitment, you wouldn't have signed up for Beeminder in the first place.
5. Beeminder does a lot of valuable things (reminders, graphs, community, generally making you awesomer) so arguably has earned the money by the time you first derail.
6. Cheating on Beeminder is a devastating precedent that ruins the power that it had as a tool to motivate you.
7. Think of the children! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB62AyZ6gHk (Those kids are so much bigger now, because your derailments pretty literally put food in their mouths!)
1. It ruins the Quantified Self aspect. You don't want to falsify your data.
2. You've set up an autodata goal and there isn't any (easy) way to cheat. Your Fitbit (or Habitica or Duolingo or Project Euler or whatever) just tells Beeminder how many steps got (or whatever your metric is).
3. Your graph is public, and ideally you've pointed friends/family to it. Are you going to lie to your friends and family?
4. It's just part of your identity as a Beeminder user. If you were the type to falsify your data to weasel out of a commitment, you wouldn't have signed up for Beeminder in the first place.
5. Beeminder does a lot of valuable things (reminders, graphs, community, generally making you awesomer) so arguably has earned the money by the time you first derail.
6. Cheating on Beeminder is a devastating precedent that ruins the power that it had as a tool to motivate you.
7. Think of the children! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB62AyZ6gHk (Those kids are so much bigger now, because your derailments pretty literally put food in their mouths!)
Ok, that's all I've got. Here's the blog version: https://blog.beeminder.com/cheating/