They're clearly freaked out about by Stack Exchange. They attacked them for needing a "VC cookie jar," but couldn't actually saying anything bad about their sites.

This was also surreal: "Sites like Quora seem more like Tumblr or other blog-esque formats."

Wait. What?

Many here on HN have only ever seen EE when clicking on it accidentally because of their SEO-fu.

The rise of more modern Q&A sites combined with Google's renewed commitment to punishing automated/weak/content means this must be a challenging time to be EE.

I admit I'm not mad at that.