Until recently, I have only played Dark Chess, Extinction Chess, and eight games of Keryo Pente. All of these games cannot have a position with an opponent not moving or the game is over. I obviously missed on the debate about the auto-pass feature. Now that I've started to play Backgammon, and have been able to lock up my homebase while my opponent has a blot or two on the bar, I've found that this site doesn't have the feature. That was why I posted my earlier comment. I feel it would improve the play of any game, as I stated in the first post. You seem quite arbitrary in your refusal, Fencer. It will surely improve the play and enjoyment of a game that has it. That's how you play if you were playing the game face to face. For some reason, you're against it. The only problem that I can see it causing for this site, is for those people that are hung up on having their moves for the day counted and broadcast to the world. Who cares how many moves one makes? Let them tally as if they had moved. Delaying a game for no reason seems bad to me.
From reading the posts just now, it looks unanimous minus two for the feature. Why don't you want it Fencer? A reason I can understand, even if I disagree with it, will atleast let me know your thinking on it and can calm the emotions of those that feel unlistened to. As it has been said, it is your site. You can do what you please and if I don't like it, I can go elsewhere or put up with it and stay. I know if one of my opponents blocks me from moving, I'd just as soon have the option of letting him make all of his moves until I have a chance to move. Why tease me with meaningless rolls of the dice?
Couldn't it be set up in the original parameters of a game? Or have it as an option during the game? If you don't like it in your games, you never agree to the option as you can have the default with no auto-pass. The rest of us can hit the button and keep the game moving.