Bitcointalk is honestly overrated in terms of learning in general. It's great for having questions and discuss/debate certain news and topics, but if you're a beginner you're better off reading articles off the web.
I won't say this is 100% true because I've learned more about crypto mining on this forum that the web, there are some answers on here that I can't find on web, adding tweaks and clocking have effective answers on here than using google.