The thing is that when the post is too long, people read only half of the article. So there is no point in writing too long. In Spanish "Lo bueno, si breve, dos veces bueno". Good things when short are twice as good.

I also agree. Some times a long article indicates the complexity of a topic, and in that case the length is justified. But many articles in GV are long and, to me at least, it seems to be for no particular reason (I mean there are more words and tweets and quotes, but they don't add anything new or interesting to it).

I prefer to read and translate short post. I thing is better for readers a short and precise post as wellto avoid to repeat the context.

Especially when dealing with time sensitive news keeping them short would be a plus

As a translator, I definitely think it would be better to write shorter posts because sometimes we have it really difficult when it comes to translate texts that are overly redundant... There are times when I find myself translating the same idea like twice or three times inside the same text.....

You can start this by saying Editors sometimes there's no need to context, that some texts are self explaining and that not all the readers are morons or don't use Google to dig deeply in the subject.

Writing shorter posts could (maybe) encourage writers, but certainly translators. Some very interesting posts sometimes take a lot of time to be translated because no volunteer translator has enough time on their hands. By the time someone gets to doing it the news isn't new anymore.