AbigailII: Some sites take autopass to the extreme. They have the dice rolled way in advance and even calculate the moves a player will make and move them for him. I would never want this site become like that. I want to roll and move the checkers and chat as I would in a regular game. Having one's home base closed is part of the game and I think this site should incorporate the play to match how it goes when people play together. Autopass is not part of the game, but something that is used to facilitate internet gaming. It is used in other games too.

The owner of this site is against autopass, but I think he doesn't see the difference in the case of Backgammon because the effects of keeping the turn with one player who has closed his home base are so similar to autopass that it causes confusion and they get lumped together because of it. I tried to explain how I view the differences in the post with my proposal. Perhaps I'm not as good of a communicator as I'd like to be?