For the next 2 hours I'll be answering and questions/concerns you have about moderation.
In terms of moderation on the boards we dealt with the same issues. Personal attacks are the biggest issue between posters. Some of the non-running threads (Israel/Gaza) got out of hand and we had people trying to abuse the report a post system, but nothing really out of the ordinary.
I feel pretty decent about the state of moderating as I heard indirectly from a very prominent runner who gets bashed on here who said we do a good job of cleaning up the attacks that cross a line and also heard from the parent of a very prominent high schooler who said the same thing. That doesn't mean moderation isn't the most frustrating thing we do at LetsRun but that's the nature of having an open forum on the internet. The good outweighs the bad in my book but I love forums. I think I'll start another thread on some of the top posts/threads of the month.