http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1361

Rather than completely piggyback bbPress roles and capabilities completely on top of existing WordPress roles, it should also have a dedicated 'Forum Moderator' role. This should be a typical subscriber role with the added moderator capabilities.

You can use existing bbPress and WordPress code for examples.

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