What do you take the forum as?, a work place, a leisure centre, an education arena etc, every newbie needs to question him or herself on this.
I think this forum as a
"Knowledge pool" where we can gain knowledge and share our knowledge to other users. I have learnt many things from this forum and also shared my knowledge to the community. If we spend some time to acquire knowledge, then we can learn a lot of things from here. If we have any doubts or queries we can ask here to get the answers from the community members. You would say that you can ask your query on Search engine and you will get the answers or details about your topic. Why will you ask your query on Bitcointalk forum? If you ask any question here, you will get answers from different people with a lot of different contents. You will get answers from those who know about that topic or those who have experienced in that topic. By this way, you can get a better information than searching.