Just what the heck IS this thing called E2?

It isn't a writeup, or the existing body of writeups; if there was an accident and they were all deleted, E2 would still exist.
It isn't a name, a URL, or a person.
It isn't a user, or group of users, or even a particular group of people. We are as cells in an organism, constantly being replaced while the larger structure remains.
It sure as heck isn't the mess of spaghetti perl underneath it all.
So what's left?

I believe that what has been created here, inadvertantly, most closely resembles something like an Air Force Squadron - an entity, existing independantly of its constituent parts.

And you can't kill a squadron.

04:08 <dragondude40> looking for an episode about an alien sound that makes men, kill women to extinct all humankind on planet Earth
04:14 <Rapscallion> Episode of what?
04:15 <Simulacron3> Sex in the City

<sam512> I hate nonsense. It was of slight value back when it was in short supply, but this is the internet now.