The Newbie forum catches a lot of topics, so sometimes someone looking for info on certain issue might miss that thread. There are company specific
Subforums for hardware, Zoom, Tascam, Alesis, Boss/Roland, and s
oftware, ProTools, Cubase, Reaper, Ableton, etc. which might be more appropriate.
I think many regular users click on "New Posts" which will show new posts in all the forums. Hence you will probably get a response.
For someone looking for specific info on a particular piece of hardware or software, they may just go to that specific area, which means they would miss anything posted in the Newbie topic, or maybe the Digital Recording and Computers forums. Someone looking at topics in the Zoom forum would likely never see your post about the H6studio power draw.
If you have a question regarding specific hardware or software, or a technique, simply look over the list of topics and choose one that seems appropriate.