>>379326624
Exactly this. People refuse to not kick out their rando friends; usually with "Oh so and so is cool" or "Hey they're my friend" or whatever crap, and then we have no chance to integrate newfriends because we have no idea if they're someone's spoonfed redditor or not. Newfags are understandably very shy and won't easily walk up to people and introduce themselves so the icebreaking is important; the 'common code', as it were.