Please. Those who were banned were banned for just reasons. Trolling, flaming, and being all around jerks, among other infractions. And yes, you can have a differing view and express it without trolling, which the overwhelming majority of people did. Don't act like some anti-Raimi genocide occurred. People get banned every week and it has never had anything to do with
what they thought. Step down from your crucifix.
Typical overgenerelising response.

It has nothing to do with me presenting myself or others as some sacrificial lamb. What happened happened. From the very start there were individuals who were vocal about their dislike with Raimi's approach to adapting spider-man, this isn't some new wave of 180 degrees thinking. Sure, there are more people who dislike Raimi and his movies now, many of them basing their views on odd and disingenuine reasons but I'm not going to sit by and watch people parade around their lies that the dilike for Raimi's efforts is a recent thing or stems from spider-man 3 because that is absoloute nonsense.
The fact is, when spider-man first dropped, it was a novelty, many of the posters here willingly had their faces firmly implanted and grafted to the butt cracks of Raimi and Sony. It's no surprise when people who disagreed with the majority were met with serious opposition. Sure, you had trolls and people like Mr Parker and Bakerboy upto their antics but there were a few posters who simply had an opinion that didn't gel with everyone else and they just so happened to be vocal about it and were'nt backing down, all the while maintaining a degree of civility.
The fact that the Raimi lovers at the time were so entrenched in their views and couldn't stand a small number of people who disliked the movies pissed them off and thus resorted to school playground tactics, making all sorts of accusations which in turn derailed so many threads, which again resulted in mods getting involved and handing out warnings, bannings and all sorts. Some of the bannings and infractions incurred back then were a joke, that's why so many of the older posters from the 2000 to 2004 era dont post on these boards anymore or have left altogether.
So please spare me your misguided and hypergeneralised notions. I was there right in the middle of it all. I saw and experienced what was going on at the time and the one that still gets me is, that there was one poster in particular, (not going to mention any names) predicted exactly what has happened. He predicted that 3 movies would get made at the most and then they'll get new blood and go with a new direction amongst many other things that have happened amongst many other things. As you can imagine such blasphemy was met with strong hostility and needless to say had the pro Raimi fans running to and bombarding mods with complaints.
Now, the overall situation is quite different. It's actually quite pathetic how things have turned out. I'd have more respect for the majority of posters here had they stuck with their initial conviction as opposed to them now hating Raimi and his movies simply because they didn;t like the last movie.