Hello @dokbohm. Newbs like us do quite periodically show up in the forum asking questions and we get a lot of support
If you look at this thread from when I started back in July @tonybe does a great job explaining basics to us. Some serious effort here from his part
The OGS forum is very active, yes generally by higher rated players but that because they have a certain degree of permanence here and engage regularly. I’m sure that our newbie questions come up every two months or so but that gets buried in the feed by the multitude of other conversations popping up and all going on at once