User blog comment:The Bonehead Skipper/Buggy Not A Shichibukai!?/@comment-87.213.128.115-20110308145108

The Gorosei questioning how they would fill the empty seats hardly suggests Buggy did not receive the invitation to join the ranks, as he is only one of the 3 seats available (Jinbe and blackbeard left, Moria got kicked out). Personally i don't think he would have gotten the invititation because the WG kicked out Moria due to being weak. Even with all the new prisoner recruits Buggy would hardly be a force to be reckoned with in the New World....