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by rchaud 1406 days ago
This is true of most non-fiction literature as well (self-help and business books especially), so I'm not sure if Google can necessarily discourage people from adding unnecessary padding.

Google is already scraping bits of website content and showing it to the user as a "featured snippet". Nobody is going to write short pages if Google can already rob you of a click so easily.