Personally I don’t mind EQD. It was the first place I went when I first started watching MLP.
On the plus side, I like "Drawfriends" I don’t have to go to places like Deventart or KYM to search through hundreds of the more "exotic" artworks to find good work
I'm neutral towards the news aspect. while it may not be 100% accurate, most of it doesn’t pertain to my interests. I take from it what I want and toss the rest.
As far as the pre-readers. I'll agree with those who've had bad experiences with them. I submitted a short story one time to a PR and he about tore it apart publicly on Ponychan and was "not nice" about it in the e mails I got from him either.
But I don’t hold that against EQD. It's like anything else, you have to take it with a grain of salt. Is it perfect? No. Could it be better? Yes. Will I stop going there? Eventually, but I haven't found a good enough reason to cross that bridge yet.