@Justin Tadlock - I remember vaguely the conversation we had in the forum. Awesome to see that you notice the close similarities between what bbPress does and the typical WordPress blog post.

When WPTavern get redesigned, the next step will be integrating bbPress to not only act as the forum, but it will also act as the commenting system as well. How we'll accomplish this is beyond me but after conversations with JJJ, I know it's achievable.

As for the ForumEngine theme, I was waiting for you to stop by and comment. If I understand your post on this type of stuff correctly, ForumEngine is a classic example of what NOT to do with custom post types in themes?