[chrishajer]

Having built sites in both Joomla and WordPress, let me steer you toward WordPress.

You mention:

User Moderation

Comment Moderation

User Profile

User Moderation, not sure what you need to do that’s not built in.

Comment moderation is built in.

This plugin extends the built in user profile:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/extended-user-profile/

I have 10x more confidence that you could do this more easily with WordPress than Joomla and I think I would select WordPress over bbPress for this as well.

What did you see in WordPress that was a limitation for you?