Originally Posted by Profits of Doom

Because even with low quality content the EMD's were getting an unnatural boost in the serps just by being an EMD. I do a lot with niche Adsense sites, and they are almost all .net and .org EMD's focusing on a longtail niche keyword. There were times when I would just install Wordpress on a domain and leave it empty until I could get around to posting content on it, and when I returned a few weeks later the EMD domain sitting on an empty Wordpress install with zero backlinks was already on the first page of Google.

It's going to be tough to 100% say what is happening for another week or two until the algo stabilizes, because it seems like a lot of sites with EMD's and quality content and backlinks were unfairly penalized, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if in another week or so they reclaim their rankings. But for the most part I have noticed that my EMD sites with quality content and backlinks were not penalized, while a bunch of niche EMD's sites I bought off BHW with crappy links and content were brutalized...