clue: if youre brand new to a community like this one, and if you want to make a good impression on people in order to get help, its probably not a good idea to suggest that the forums might really suck (which also implies that the users of the forums suck...).
just an idea.
if by guides, do you mean tutorials and the like? well, theres not much to learn in the game itself that you cant learn from the tutorial thats built in the game. most everything is basically building. its up to you to have the ingeniuty and creativity to build stuff that is cool. :)
you can also learn alot by just playing around in servers with other people online.
the first time i played on a server with other people. i learned that you could build lines of things faster by holding down the enter button then holding down the up or down or side button. :) i used to move the block over a few times, then press; over and over and over, it was really slow. but by simply interacting, i learned something new! ^___^
so its good to get out there and just try stuff out! experience is the best teacher, and we were all n00bs once. ;) hehehe
good luck. hope to see some cool stuff from you! :D