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Drafts are for blogging systems.

I can’t imagine why a forum would need drafts.

However admin have the ability to edit deleted posts so you could create and delete a topic and then edit the post – then undelete it.

bbPress won’t show topics/posts that don’t have a status of zero so if you wrote a plugin for drafts you could just create topics/posts with a special status of like “7” until it was published.