pgt: i agree with you ... tournaments take too long sometimes .. especially for players who cant win it anymore, and are still stuck in the tournament (although they can ask fencer to remove them)

that has nothing to do with the feature request of favourites though
the only effect favourites might have on those slow players, is that it might make them play faster in those tournaments (when asked by other players in those tournaments)

what other suggestion do you have to speed up those tournaments ?
(aside from auto-pass)

pgt: Auto-pass for backgammon (and related games) is perfectly fine as is; at a minimum it fits the rules of the game, which doesn't always happen in games on this site!

I realize that some players would like another auto-pass option, one where if you are on the bar but have the option to double, you can click a box somewhere and you can give up that doubling right until you choose to unclick the box (or something like that).

I personally would never use that option since I would be giving up equity. I would also stop playing gammon games here if such a rule change replaced the current auto-pass feature instead of becoming an additional option.

Fencer has stated repeatedly that he has much higher priorities in terms of making Bk a better site, and I think he is correct in that point of view.

By the way, I like the idea of being able to flag particular games, although as a pawn there is no point for me personally using it. For example, one could flag all tournament games that contain a long time control, thus making it easier to play those games when you don't have time to play every game each day, or each log-in session.

likewowman2cool: As for the auto-pass being better, for me one of the main changes (if not the only one) would be if I could use auto-pass, even if my opponent does not want to use auto-pass when it is his/her turn.
As for the doubling cube "issue", I can understand both parts and I suggested (even before auto-pass was implemented) something like "auto-pass for x moves", where you choose the number of moves you want to auto-pass inside that particular game. This was suggested so that people could use auto-pass without completely losing the knowledge of the game (but I probably wouldn't use auto-pass for the doubling possibility, at least not everytime)