diff --git a/server/.eslintignore b/server/.eslintignore
index 650b81784..15f52152e 100644
--- a/server/.eslintignore
+++ b/server/.eslintignore
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
+# Things we don't want ESLint to lint. This is just compiled output
+# and other people's code.
+# Note that an editor or eslint implementation not honouring this file
+# may cause crashes, as it will try and lint a couple million lines of JS.
+
 node_modules
 js
\ No newline at end of file