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 The guidelines for contributing are available here:
 http://doc.scrapy.org/en/master/contributing.html
+
+Please do not abuse the issue tracker for support questions.
+If your issue topic can be rephrased to "How to ...?", please use the
+support channels to get it answered: http://scrapy.org/community/