Reply To: bbp_reply_admin_links
sorry, this was not meant to be a solution, but rather to point you to then code
'before' => '<span class="bbp-admin-links">',
'after' => '</span>',
is what it currently does, so if you wanted to take out the span entirely you would do
function theredeclipse_change ($args) {
$args['before'] = '' ;
$args['after'] = '' ;
return $args ;
}