Update contributing guidelines

CONTRIBUTING.md

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 # Contribution guidelines
 
-Please open contributions as either issue reports or pull requests. We will ask 
-that anything that requires testing outside our normally supported platforms be 
+Please open contributions as either issue reports or pull requests. We will ask
+that anything that requires testing outside our normally supported platforms be
 marked as such.
 
-As ircd is such an ancient project with varying code styles, please try to 
-follow the current coding style of the file you are in. If all else fails, 
-please use the [Linux Kernel](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle)
-coding style.
+Style
+-----
 
-Please run all code against the following `astyle` command before sending in 
+Please run all code against the following `astyle` command before sending in
 a pull request:
 
 ```console
 $ astyle --style=linux --mode=c -n $file
 ```
 
-It should be trivial to set up your text editor to do this for you.
+It should be trivial to set up your text editor to do this for you. If you use
+vim, add this to your vim configuration:
 
+```vimscript
+" Lvimrc
+" if .lvimrc exists in current or parent directory of the currently loaded file,
+" load it as config
+if filereadable('../.lvimrc')
+  source ../.lvimrc
+endif
+if filereadable('./.lvimrc')
+  source ./.lvimrc
+endif
+```
+
+Otherwise please make sure the appropriate command is ran as part of your 
+editing process before you send a pull request. All pull requests that do not 
+follow the coding style will not be considered until they follow the coding 
+style.
+
+Testing
+-------
+
+When testing Elemental, please be sure to test it on a network of at least 
+3 instances of elemental. Please also be sure to have one of these instances 
+run **without** the patch you are testing, to be able to show that there is 
+a difference.