diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 8a0ea76cc8..b067dcda2b 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Asking questions
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 Preferably, asking questions should be done via IRC (#mpv on irc.freenode.net),
-but asking questions by opening is also barely tolerated.
+but asking questions by opening a github issue is also barely tolerated.
 
 Sending patches
 ===============