Quality Assurance: Bucks for Bugs

Earn money (5 to 20 euros via PayPal, converted into your currency) for mistakes you find on this site! This website is intended to be technically and textually accurate, but the growing amount of information does just not decrease the likelihood of mistakes in any way. You can contribute to improve this website, and this gets rewarded.

How Does It Work?

When you find any error, be it technical (validation or display problems), textual (orthographic – the author is German – or even functional mistakes), or a suspected usability problem, just drop me a line by either using the contact form on this page or emailing jens@meiert.com (subject: “Jens Meiert - Mistake”).

Usually, I confirm the reception of every error report as well as suspected mistakes. At the end of each month, the three biggest bugs or most helpful reports, respectively, will be selected and their senders rewarded with

20 euros
10 euros
5 euros

“Winners” will be notified and have two weeks to reply. The money is either paid out by bank transfer (Europe) or PayPal (international). Please note that there are no other payment methods and that there is no legal claim to payment, since the definition and assessment of a mistake might be difficult, subjective, or both. Participation is voluntary. All winners will be mentioned in the “Hall of Fame”, unless there are (informal) objections on behalf of the reporter.

By the way: This initiative’s background is explained in the blog (including remarks from Donald Norman).

Known Issues

Orthography:: I tend to mix American and British English anyway, and I’m probably not that consistent with certain expressions, either. As I am no native English speaker, I am looking forward to correcting spelling mistakes and to improving all the language on this site, but I cannot reward every report of such slips.
Typography:: Certain things are not optimal yet, but as an élève of Tschichold and Bringhurst, I’m quite aware of that situation. Expect improvements.
Links:: Links are checked on a monthly basis, but not necessarily corrected when it comes to blog comments. There’s no need to report broken links in terms of this page’s initiative, although I’m looking forward to receiving notes on them. Nonetheless my apologies if you come across broken references.
Display problems on 800 × 600 pixels (and below) screen resolutions:: I will not accept any reports on screen resolution (well, window size) dependent display problems. This is just something I need to consider in my job, and I do exactly that in every project, be it completely professional or completely personal. There shouldn’t be many problems though.
Display problems in seemingly dead user-agents:: This is due to the same reasons as above anyway. Let’s ignore Internet Explorer for Mac OS, Netscape Navigator 4, and pals.

Previous Error Reports

See the Hall of Fame.

À Propos

You can support this website by a small donation, too. As an additional thanks, donors who leave their website URI will receive a link from a forthcoming “Donors” page (under reserve and without a legal title).

Jens Meiert