Re: Hidden posts
You could always create a plugin which “hides” certain posts from the forum front-page/forum pages. I don’t think there’s anything available that does that now… the closest I’ve seen is this bb-Pages plugin:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpages/
It was broken for a while, but it looks like someone posted a working version a few months ago:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpages/#post-4768
Good luck!
