[anthuman]

Why are there so many of these non-news articles from the nytimes lately?

"You don’t want a child prodigy"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20003367

The latest.

"The Surprising Benefits of Relentlessly Auditing Your Life"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20009838

More importantly, who keeps boosting it to the frontpage. This isn't news. It's mostly pseudoscientific "self-help" style nonsense.

What's the difference between these nytimes articles and the neverending "Coffee is good for you" followed by "Coffee is bad for you" garbage. Or the relentless "Wine is good for you" followed by "Wine is bad for you" garbage. It's nonsense that doesn't inform or get you anywhere. It worthless and useless fluff purely to make them money.

[sctb]

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[Zenbit_UX]

Since you quoted a rule out of context I'd like to provide the full version for ironic effect:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead.

That last sentence would seem to imply you've broken the rules yourself simply by commenting about another user doing so... Which ironically I'm also now guilty of.

So we're left with two options, mods delete both our comments for violations... Or maybe we relax and hear out the GP comment...

They actually brought up a very good point that I'm sure many of us on HN have noticed in regards to recent NYT articles being quite clickbaity and generally being of a lower journalistic standards.