Where to report bad links etc. in Web sites?

I'd like to set up a database of where to report problems with
various Web sites, and a server-side lookup engine where you can
paste in the URL where you experienced the problem and get back the
best way to report the problem. Why do we need this? Because often
it takes a very long time to navigate a broken Web site to try to
find some way to contact the WebMaster, and sometimes there's no
way whatsoever accessible on the broken Web site, because after,
it's **broken** in the first place!

Often there's a [Contact us] link that's broken, which is the
problem in the first place!! It's analagous to needing to dial 611
to report that your phone line is dead, but it's dead so you can't
call 611.

Or there are many different ways to post a comment but no obvious
place to report bad links, so you have to guess which of the
several contact methods to try. And on some Web sites, you can't
report a problem, even a bug in the create-account form, unless you
already have an account, which you can't get because the form for
getting an account is broken.

Twitter for example has a broken create-account form, and a broken
report-problem form (requires you already have an account), but has
a fallback e-mail address that seems to work, but the auto-ack
gives a trouble-ticket link that is broken so there's no way for me
to check the status of my trouble-ticket. So then I e-mailed a
second trouble report about that!, and got a second auto-ack, with
a second non-working check-status link!

If such a database + search engine already exists, please tell me,
so that I won't waste my time re-inventing the wheel. If no such
Web-based service currently exists, is there anyone other than
myself who would like such a service, perhaps somebody who will
help me design and implement and test and advertise the service?

If no such service already exists, so that I need to implement this
service myself, I might also provide a way to automatically report
WebSite malfunctions directly through my system, making it even
easier to report broken Web sites. So instead of asking my system
how to report, then needing to read those instructions and do the
report yourself, you just ask my system then click the AUTO-REPORT
button.

Or if the site disallows automatic forwarding of problem reports, I
might set up my own database of trouble tickets, and send a single
trouble ticket to each WebMaster telling where to find on my Web
site all the actual trouble tickets for his/her Web site.


Here's an example of a bad link:
File that you are currently viewing
Linkname: Sans Steve Jobs, Twitter Still Can't Handle MacWorld
URL: http://mashable.com/2009/01/06/sans-steve-jobs-twitter-still-cant-handle-macworld/
Link that you currently have selected
Linkname: Don't Blame the Geeks! | RSS To Twitter
URL: http://rsstotwitter.com/?pX
->
406 Not Acceptable
Not Acceptable
An appropriate representation of the requested resource / could not be
found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to
use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

When I tried to:
Submit Comment
it hung for about a half minute before completing, but it did
finally post my comment as number 22, currently the last but by the
time you read this there might be more after it, but hopefully the
number will remain the same.


Here's the twitter bad-link-in-autoack info if you're curious:
<http://help.twitter.com/tickets/14781>
->redirect-> <http://twitter.com/help/login>
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