[buddha-trance]

What you can do, is edit forum.php of your theme files and edit out

<?php post_form(); ?>

it’s at the very end, just before the call for the footer. This will display only the topics.

You also edit, in both forum.php and front-page.php

<th><?php _e('Topic'); ?> — <?php bb_new_topic_link(); ?></th>

to become

<th><?php _e('Topic'); ?></th>

This should do it.