[Pisanojm]

This is one of those crazy things because of the merger of bbpress with buddypress… you can turn off the ability to reply to these forum posts in the buddypress sidebar of the dashboard under “general settings” Turn off “Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?”. This will keep your forums focused, but will encourage responses by showing the post in the activity stream… it’s the best solution we “got”… so far anyway.