[@robkk Moderator 11 years, 10 months ago]

to enable visual editor install this plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/

to remove the code button use this
add it to your child themes functions.php or a functionality plugin.

add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'rkk_bbp_edit_quick_editor' );
function rkk_bbp_edit_quick_editor( $args = array() ) {
	$args['quicktags']         = array( 'buttons' => 'strong,em,link,block,del,img,ul,ol,li,close' );

   return $args;
}