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Profile pages- are useful. Peek at the posters view their tag clouds and USE them. Sometimes the profiles even hint at the posters strengths.
Tags: You want to re-read that inforative post again- where did it go? Note: here is what you get when you click my "most popular" Tag "Forum_Tips"
Kudos: Use these to find highly regarded posts- you'll learn more by accident reading the top kudoed posts and threads than you will by intentionally asking.
And Give them out like candy for posts that clarified a point or contained concise information- this helps set off the highly regarded posts for the community to find.
Get to know the heavy hitters- If I send you one example and Altenbach posts at about the same time- His will have better performance 
Threads: Start them- use good short subject lines. I will read a thread "Sub-vi gets stuck" long before "Help Urgent" because I know I'm probably looking for a race condition or a inf loop. I'm pretty good at spoting those.
Notifications: If you start a hot thread- or a thread heats up- check often and definatly before COB- the contributors offered their help- respond with amplifying info, clarification, acknowledgement, Kudos and marked solutions as appropriate.
Welcome to the forum
As tst says, yes, answer questions that you think you may have an answer for. I will say, sometimes you need to have a thick hide though, some original posters get very harsh when an answer doesn't seem to address what they think was the question they asked. So don't be chased away from the forum by the, thankfully rare, rude people. Answer a question, here or in the "real world" will frequently make you look at the question from a different angle, or even see new questions arising from the asking.
@tst wrote:
@Adlebrand wrote:
Should i answer those questions anyway, knowing that someone will leave a comment if there is a better solution?
Yes. It's not guaranteed that someone will comment if there's a better solution, but that's life. You can sit around for years picking up knowledge until you're confident that your answers are good enough, but I think it's better to just jump in the water. This will also make you learn faster, as you would usually be more involved in discussions you already replied to, so if someone adds to that something you didn't know, you're more likely to remember it.
@tbob wrote:
Don't be shy. I've been around for many years and I am a CLD, and I still get responses to my solutions that are better. Altenbch once called me a Rube (sorry, I don't have time to search for that post). So what! I didn't take it badly and I don't think anyone else thinks lowly of me because there are better solutions around than mine. I did my best at the time. You should too. Besides, if someone comes up with a better way than yours, then you've learned something valuable. Its a pretty good way to learn in my opinion.
As a fellow CLD I'll help out tbob by calling rim a "RUBE" again right here (and tag the post so he can find it)
You'll find a bit of humor here too now and then.
As for what he said, I'll credit forum participation for my CLD. There are a few things I know about LabVIEW and programming in general. Professionally, I'm a Test Engineer so I do a lot of test automation (user pushes a button - gets a banana, some data is saved to a file that is never looked at again)
That is just a small part of what LabVIEW can do DESPITE test automation being LabVIEW's market enterance position. By involving myself in the discussions I've been exposed to Features I've not used often or expertly in the past. I learn from participation- and feel correct in redistributing the knowledge. Moreover If I post a question I have every confidence the community will provide some good feedback!
I'll take my licks from the community too- I think I've been called everything from "ignorant puke" to "Flipping Genius" in a thread.
Post-em if you got-em
"I don't think anyone else thinks lowly of me ", hmmm, takes a lot for granted! 
He's right though, I've been doing this for a long time, and learn something on this board every day. I've also had some of my suggestions shown to be, um, less than elegant, but by that both the person asking the original question and I have learned something. So Welome "a Board"! (Sorry)
