User blog comment:Staw-Hat Luffy/Dat Blind Guy/@comment-1595565-20130307062744/@comment-5896530-20130307105049

I just said that he were an unknown dude before he got promoted not long ago (sometime during the time-skip)... They don't announce Admirals for everyone in the world to know, that would just be stupid of the Marines/WG. If they don't announce it pirates and other criminals of that sort will believe that the seas are safer than anytime, which make them reckless and carefree, when in reality it is not.