I would have sent a direct message to some senior men here to get some information but this place isn't like social media and I don't know how to, as a newbie that I am, I know most of us will tell me about rules and regulations, plagiarism, spamming, but y'all don't have to worry about that because am a rule keeper and I avoid plagiarism and the rest of it like a plague.
Yes, here it will be less effective if you send a PM to senior members to ask several questions, because there are various reasons why they don't respond. Actually, it's more effective to open a thread if you have some things to ask, technical or otherwise. And you can also often use the "search" feature to look for information about various things, not only related to the rules and what you have to do in this forum. but there are several things you might have in mind to ask, and it turns out they have already been discussed here. So, the "search" feature is indeed as important as adding insight.
And also one thing that is important when you are on this forum is your consistency in continuing to try as hard as possible in making posts and improving them. Try to make posts that are informative, it doesn't always have to be an open thread, but provide opinions and responses through replies or quotes in several posts, with post content that is more informative, has the source included, or posts that are solution enough to help other memes. Consistency is important because all the memes here are also learning the same thing, namely struggle and progressing optimally and continuously.