diff --git a/docs/dev/contributing.rst b/docs/dev/contributing.rst
index 1c43cea7..e4209366 100644
--- a/docs/dev/contributing.rst
+++ b/docs/dev/contributing.rst
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ the Requests codebase::
     foo = long_function_name(var_one, var_two,
                              var_three, var_four)
 
-No.
+No. Just don't. Please.
 
 Docstrings are to follow the following syntaxes::