Growing up i was thought how to learn from peoples experience (mistake) because sometimes learning from personal mistake can be like a mark that one won't be able to forget and it could be to late to correct some mistake. When I joined the forum some months ago I got to know the forum has strong rules that if anyone takes for granted that person maybe penalized in respective of rank or position.
I believe times without number some top members have made little mistakes that is against the forum rules and they served the consequences. It will be too bad if will keep on falling fall little mistakes. New members let's try not to learn from our mistake because if we do ,it maybe too late to correct it .
Great words of advice for not only -Newbies- but everyone many people has felt the hard rock fall of the penalty to mistakes they make, but one way to learn from others mistakes is to always be active on the forum, check different boards read threads see when people are criticized, see when people are commended (you can also learn from people success) find out time for your forum knowledge progress and I think you would be on a safe side.