As to staff functions, they're what you'd expect, but the message moving suite of tools is the best I've seen anywhere. You can rename a thread, move a thread to a different section, prune a message (move it and all its replies to any section, and optionally rename it at the same time), graft a discussion (move a pruned thread to attach it to an existing thread, anywhere in the thread), and transplant (which is moving an entire thread to attach it to another). Those capabilities are probably far beyond what is needed here, but they sure are nice over there.

Actually, just about everything you mention above is in the forum software here, but I never wrote a user manual.