[Stefano Lissa]

It would be nice to have the ability, from the administration panel, to disable the tags fields (avoiding so to modify the theme). Generally it would be interesting a set of configuration to control the listing voices, replies and so on, so themes have a well known set of configuraton to use to customize the output without having each theme to build its own configuration panel.

Stefano Lissa.

[Stephen Edgar]

The Topic Tags part of your question to enable or disable them bbPress wide has already been completed and will be available in bbPress 2.2