Welcome to bitcointalk mate, it's typical of every newbie to not know where to start from in the forum but with time as you dedicate much interest into the forum and going through other community members threads particularly the pinned posts of each board you would get to understand how to ship through the forum. Endeavor to take pinned posts seriously as they have a lot of informations that you would be needing to know your left from your right within each boards.
Check out this thread, it focuses on forum 'activity, account ranks and merit. I hope it should be helpful to you as a starting point.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.msg28250551#msg28250551