When I set it up I liked the idea of a non-subjective automatic algorithm deciding who saw Lounge rather than people picking favorites. You’re a Regular if you do a lot here recently, rather than you used to and ‘know a guy’.
I can’t see Lounge anymore and I created it.
Having said that, that was the initial thinking years ago and might not be good now. I think @Troll and the current Regulars could (and probably should) tweak all that and do whatever works, e.g. just manually assign for people they know.
Just my 2 cents, because of the history of how it was set up.