Frustrating issues

Nobody here seems to answer some basic questions - I get that the search feature is supposed to solve some of this, but to be honest it doesn't work very well. I'm sure this is my issue, and not the fault of the board, but could somebody just please throw a link to where the sword of God is? I understand the idea of teaching me how to find this, and why that might be better than simply throwing a link my way, but I'm not the only one having this issue.