Forum Roles

The roles for forum management are as follows:

• Keymaster – Can create, edit and delete other users’ forums, topics and replies. Can manage Tags, and moderate a forum with the moderation tools. Has access to global forum settings, tools, and importer.
• Moderator – Can create and edit forums. Can create, edit and delete other users’ topics and replies. Can manage Tags, and moderate a forum with the moderation tools.
• Participant – Can create and edit their own topics and replies.
• Spectator – Can only read topics and replies.
• Blocked – All capabilities are explicitly blocked.

For a full description of these, see the bbPress website: https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/before-installing/bbpress-user-roles-and-capabilities/

To change a user’s role, edit the User (from the Dashboard left-hand menu), scroll down about two-thirds of the way to the bottom, and select the new forum role, then save the user.