Maybe it's bad in research, but I find that I'm a practically-minded guy. I find that I prefer terse papers to some of these 12-14 page ordeals I find in SIGCOMM, etc. Not that they aren't useful, but sometimes it seems like they just take forever to get to the point, requiring a Herculean effort of concentration to see what the problem and their solution is.
My suggestion would be to collectively let go of the stigma of short papers - if somebody did something cool in one page, then let them do it in one page! It could just be that network researchers aren't good at English communication, but I believe that's something that can be learned. We just need to have the drive to. Then again, looking at my own blog posts, maybe I need to worry about the beam in my own eye!
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