User blog comment:Dandalore/Your Shichibukai/@comment-3119203-20110202060535/@comment-3401636-20110202095502

in my opinion, i don't think Buggy would be offered a position to be a Shichibukai. Sure he has a strong crew, he's well known, and has a bad reputation, but he's weak. Like what someone wrote below, the position of Shichibukai is earned through being strong, not by having a strong crew. Sure the bad reputation is a good thing, you will need to be able to defeat pirates and not get defeated yourself. When Luffy defeated Moria, the government didn't want anybody to know about his defeat, because it would've made the Shichibukai seem weak. If Buggy was a shichibukai, he would get defeated often by non swordsmen.