Also, having read a few (first year grad student here), I'm starting to think it might sometimes be a simple matter of lack of space. Explaining algorithm and m

Also, having read a few (first year grad student here), I'm starting to think it might sometimes be a simple matter of lack of space. Explaining algorithm and method correctly requires examples, precisions etc. which might take away space to pack in more results and experiments. (I know some conferences have submission guidelines with page limits) There might be "shadier" reasons, but if that explanation makes sense, I for one would like it a lot if some researchers got in the habit of having longer explanations somewhere, say on their website. I don't know if that'd somehow break implicit rules in the academic field, but it'd lead to less head-banging-in-the-wall-trying-to-understand-what-that-damn-symbol-means.