As you can see, I'm a complete newbie; tailless and headless. I have no direction and I seek one. Educate us on the dos and donts of the forum.
How is growth measured here?
If you are completely new to the forum then you must know all the rules. So if you want to know good details about the forum then you need to spend enough time. And you will gradually learn everything with the help of everyone in the forum. When newbies take their first position in the forum they don't know anything due to which they face a lot of problems. So I suggest you to go through these forum posts and learn about the forum.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1689727.0