This is the problem with the newbie section, I have a real question but posting it here is out of place and it will be more luck than anything else that someone who knows the answer will find it in the newbie section. Soon enough it will be off the newbie section front page and will never get answered.
There are several experience and knowledgeable people who monitor the Newbie section.
If you are wanting an instant answer, then a discussion forum is likely to be frustrating no matter what section you post in.
If you have some patience, your questions will almost certainly be noticed and eventually answered. If it has been more than 48 hours and there is no activity on a legitimate question, then it is possible that it was overlooked. This will most often happen with generic subject lines such as "I'm frustrated" (since scanning through subject lines is the fastest and easiest way to filter out all the spam and other wastes of time).
You can try changing the subject line to better indicate what the thread is about and then bumping it. If it's been 96 hours and there is still no activity on a legitimate question, then either you are very unlucky and nobody has noticed the question, or you have phrased your question in a way that doesn't make any sense to the readers and they have opted to move on to help others.
