Snoopy: I believe most who want the auto-pass on more games understand that some do not want to use the feature, and I know myself - I have always suggested making it optional for each person. (That is if I want to use auto-pass - let me use auto-pass on my turns. If my opponent does not want to use auto-pass - don't use auto-pass on his turns.)

For me personally - when I'm playing games, i want to actually play games - and hitting "pass" in a no-move situation is not really playing for me.... so if an auto-pass system can get me past all those "pass" moves to a point where I can play the game, I would enjoy that much more. (again - optional for each player - never force anyone to use autopass)

As for the outside auto-pass program, I never used that mostly for the fact I never liked the idea of giving my private information (password) to an outside party.... even using the same password on a program on my PC could still have hidden dangers. Probable very safe & no reason not to trust the programmer of those programs - but still something for security reasons I never wanted to do. So to compare the users of that outside program vs. players on this site is not really a fair comparison.