bbPress is a very poor relation to dedicated forum software and I agree with you Jeff the nomenclature is odd to say the least. It is one of the least intuitive plugins that i have ever used. Why oh why did the team remove the visual editor, the same can be said for the odd labels that are used in the front end display.

But it is the only real solution at the moment. It is a pity the security problems with Mingle Forum could not be sorted as that was the closest I have ever come to a proper forum on Wordpress.

Let's hope Justin's plugin gets us closer to a proper forum.