The Lounge is a real category rather than a dumping ground. The sourcing rule still applies there, which surprises people, but the register is looser and nobody minds a digression.
Welcome. Two practical notes from staff. Your first few posts are rate-limited, which is an anti-spam measure and not a comment on you, and it lifts on its own. If you hit it and have something to add, edit the post you already made.
I would want to see it done twice before believing it once.
Reading rather than answering, but this is the post I would point somebody at.
On the reading order question specifically: start with the how-to-ask materials in this category, then read the one to three subcategories where your main questions live. The rest will be discoverable by tag once you understand the structure.
Likes here mean "this helped", not "I agree". People like posts that argue against them, and that is deliberate.
The category structure looks heavier than it is. There are twenty top-level categories and you will use three of them. Find those three, mute the rest for a month, and come back to the others when a question sends you there.
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The five documentation pages worth reading before you post anything — a second dataset
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Coming back to: A newcomer's list of things that confused me, and the fixes
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Reading order for a first week here, and what to skip until later — what changed since
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How to tell whether your question is already answered on a maintained page
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Introducing myself and asking whether my planned first topic belongs anywhere — does this still hold?
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Follow-up: Search filters: what is missing
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Discussing something you have already been doing — the long version
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Asking a follow-up: new topic or new reply?
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Getting a referral rather than a refusal
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Talking to a therapist about this specifically
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