diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ When reporting a bug, provide full details of your environment, that means, at
 a minimum, kitty version, OS and OS version, kitty config (ideally a minimal
 config to reproduce the issue with).
 
+Note that bugs and feature requests are often closed quickly as they are either
+fixed or deemed wontfix/invalid. In my experience, this is the only scaleable way to
+manage a bug tracker. Feel free to continue to post to a closed bug report
+if you would like to discuss the issue further. Being closed does not mean you
+will not get any more responses.
 
 ### Contributing code