RE: It's All So Quiet!

I can understand you. Still, for me, it wasn't some patience task. Quite in contrary. Apparently, I was curious enough to observe it like a kid with wide-open eyes. 😲

Regarding whales, in these several years I've been around here, and in general, my approach was quite similar or even the same as yours. But when I was going there (on HiveFest), I didn't want to go with some prejudice. So, I tried to make myself aware as much as it was possible that on social media sites and platforms like this one, it's easy to misunderstand and misjudge the other side as we lack lots of information we would get in real-life personal contact (like facial expressions, body language, tone of voice, etc.).
(I know, it happened to me several times, especially in the first couple of years around here, for some (from my point of view) most sincere constructive criticism. But my plain and simple straightforwardness to some others "sounded" too strict, or too harsh, or too judgemental and not at all as constructive criticism or even offensive and aggressive. So, I learned on my own skin that words on paper or screen may be interpreted in all sorts of ways that actually might not have anything in common with the message the author wanted to send. All of that it's even more likely to happen if just one side speaks a language that is not actually his/her mother tongue, as some things in that person's first language would be just a common mild expression while (more or less) literally translated in English or some other language would be a pure disaster.)

For all these reasons, I decided not to pay attention or even less worry about if someone was a whale or not. After all, I thought, we are all just flesh and blood human beings, and that's how I approached every single HiveFest attendee I had a chance to talk with. And I can tell you that many of them surprised me in the most positive way, as for some of them (whales and non-whales), I created an entirely different or even wrong picture starting from their physical appearance up to the impression of their personality.