In hacker culture I think there's a pretty clear culture that proving you aren't interested in the inner circle's identities (and therefore proving you are a mature person who understands what is at stake) is one of the ways you earn access to the inner circle.

The lemma is that people who actively want to be friends with and know people of the inner circle are usually marked as untrustable and (somewhat regrattably) made fun of and excluded. That is, prove you are here for the game, not for rubbing shoulders with powerful people, and you shall become one.

I have seen this in warez-related circles, seems like social mechanic that appears naturally to protect those that matter.