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I understand that this option exist in the pre-1.7 version of moodle and this option could still be achieved by using the tab of "Locally assigned roles" tab. However, a lot of our users are restoring courses from Moodle 1.5.x and 1.6.x to Moodle 1.9 and they found it quite confusing to use the "Locally assigned roles", instead of just use a simple pull-down menu for the option of "Can a student post to this forum" (which existed in 1.6.x and 1.7.x). Just hope this option could be added back to the 1.9.3 or 2.0. Shouldn't be difficult to do it, just need to modify the /mod/forum/mod_form.php and add this option back to the GUI. Just my 2 cents. Thanks!
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Ok I was wrong on my last comment 
I was misguided to "Locally assigned roles" and I didn't look into "Override permissions" tab, where we can find alternate way to restrict who can start a new thread.
I found also that there are some references to this functionality at lang packs and help files, namely:
lang/en_utf8/forum.php:18:$string['allowdiscussions'] = 'Can a $a post to this forum?';
lang/en_utf8/help/forum/index.html:3: <li><a href="help.php?module=forum&file=allowdiscussions.html">Allow discussions</a></li>
lang/en_utf8/help/forum/allowdiscussions.html
Maybe there should be at least a reference to this in forum settings area so teachers wont get lost and easily learn the new way of doing things.
I was misguided to "Locally assigned roles" and I didn't look into "Override permissions" tab, where we can find alternate way to restrict who can start a new thread.
I found also that there are some references to this functionality at lang packs and help files, namely:
lang/en_utf8/forum.php:18:$string['allowdiscussions'] = 'Can a $a post to this forum?';
lang/en_utf8/help/forum/index.html:3: <li><a href="help.php?module=forum&file=allowdiscussions.html">Allow discussions</a></li>
lang/en_utf8/help/forum/allowdiscussions.html
Maybe there should be at least a reference to this in forum settings area so teachers wont get lost and easily learn the new way of doing things. 
Seems that I hit this issue as well. Seems very odd to me that no one feels the lack of this option.
Probably this feature can be achieved by some other mean that I honestly can't see how!
Imagine a course that can be used by every registered user where I only want to allow teachers to initiate discussions (this of course in a per-forum basis), how can I achieve this?
I noticed that "open" column on mdl_forum table as been removed as well, seems that restore code still has some code on this but I would have to look deeper.
I would classify this issue a severe change of behaviour instead of "improvement", can you please review this torestore previous functionality?
Do you need help on that?
Regards,
Paulo Matos