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contributor docs: Clarify how to claim a mobile issue 

The existing text says to post a GitHub comment "saying that you'd
like to work on" the issue.  A lot of new contributors,
understandably, take that literally -- they just say they'd like to
work on the issue, with no further information.

In particular they don't give any evidence that they've taken the
steps we prescribe in the preceding section, of figuring out what code
is involved and how they'll approach the problem before they claim it.
When I reply asking for that information, very often they haven't done
those steps... while sometimes they have, and just hadn't put together
from context that that would be a good thing to communicate.

So spell that out explicitly.  Hopefully this will elicit smoother
communication from the contributors who have done that work; and
for those who haven't, hopefully it'll help redirect them to go back
and do it.

Also expand on the instruction not to spam.
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@ -219,8 +219,14 @@ issue you're interested in.
There is no bot for other Zulip repositories
([`zulip/zulip-flutter`](https://github.com/zulip/zulip-flutter/), etc.). If
you are interested in claiming an issue in one of these repositories, simply
post a comment on the issue thread saying that you'd like to work on it. There
is no need to @-mention the issue creator in your comment.
post a comment on the issue thread saying that you've started work on the
issue and would like to claim it. In your comment, describe what part of the
code you're modifying and how you plan to approach the problem, based on
what you learned in steps 1–4 [above](#picking-an-issue-to-work-on).
There is no need to @-mention the issue creator in your comment. There is
also no need to post the same information in multiple places, for example in
a chat thread in addition to the GitHub issue.
Please follow the same guidelines as described above: find an issue labeled
"help wanted", and only pick up one issue at a time to start with.