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This is where CONTRIBUTING.md comes in. If a project doesn't want Issues to be used for support, then it should mention it there. Whether people actually read it is another story :(

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It's not at all logical to look into the guidelines for contributing to a project of what you seek is support, not to contribute a feature request or a patch. I'd never look there.

Yeah this is actually my canned response on one of my own projects, and I'm tired of copying and pasting it. Nobody reads CONTRIBUTING.md

In our issues template, we start it with:

"GitHub issues are for bugs / installation problems / feature requests. For general support from the community, see [StackOverflow](link)"

However, we still get plenty of issues filed that are more appropriate for StackOverflow, so not sure there's anything technical you can do without integrating more closely with StackOverflow :)

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