I hadn’t ever encountered this idea (bug bounties) before and I think it’s great. Only thing that bothers me is that, if you were to run the scheme for long eno

I hadn’t ever encountered this idea (bug bounties) before and I think it’s great. Only thing that bothers me is that, if you were to run the scheme for long enough it might start to become a victim of its own success: wary of the bug hunters your programmers would be so much more careful (think especially about the harmless and stylistic stuff) that there wouldn’t be any small things available to find any more and bug hunters would get bored and give up. To resolve this you could only conduct the bounties periodically so there’s always enough of a backlog of bugs to be found.