Edit forum properties
Once you have created a new discussion forum you can edit its properties by hovering over the page heading and selecting the Properties button:
Edit forum description
Briefly describe your forum and its purpose. You can include text and pictures.
The forum description appears in a shaded box beneath the forum page heading:
Set how long posts remain editable
Slide the bar to set the period during which posts remain editable once they have been posted. You can set this option to: never; 5 minutes; 10 minutes; 20 minutes; 1 hour; 1 day; 1 week; 1 year; or always. Forum moderators and those with permissions above this level can always edit posts.
Show or hide avatars
Avatars act as consistent images for your online persona across different sites.
You can choose whether or not to show avatars in your forum and provide the address of an avatar service, such as gravatar.com. Enabling this feature on your forum enables people who have signed up to Gravatar, or another service, to show their pictures alongside their posts.