I've been through this "interview" or "meet and greet" process, as part of attending private parties on a number of occasions. Different groups handle things in various ways. One group (which was really a business, or so I felt) required you email them photos, along with name, address and phone number. Later there would be a phone call from one of the organizers, and after that we were emailed a form to fill out, which we had to bring to the party (along with $100).
Others were the "meet and greet" sort, where people would get together at a local restaurant and just visit for a while.
I never got the third degree from any of them. Mainly they were friendly conversations, with some discussion of the group "policies and procedures". Nominally the main goal was to check us out and make sure we were who we said we were, and that we didn't come across as nut cases, which they do get on occasion.
The only problems I ever saw with this process was where some the organizers, some or all of whom were always women, would start thinking with their pussies instead of their brains in terms of who they would admit to the group. This resulted in a number of subsequent unpleasant episodes at a few of the parties (anyone who think it's only the guys who are bad about thinking with their "little head" instead of their "big head" is living in a dreamworld).
But overall this "interview" process is normal for private parties, and you should be glad that they do them, and hope they are good at filtering out the chaff in the process.
-- Bear
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