User blog comment:Blackendedsoul/Crew Type/@comment-4889755-20120525212026/@comment-4889755-20120525231217

Well there's some cases where alone a crew mate can be intimidating just because of their power or connections, take Rayleigh for example, everyone knows he's strong but few people have actually seen his power, they just know he's strong, because he was the Pirate Kings first mate. It's a bit like stereotyping, like one one says "hey, those are the Straw Hat pirates, I heard they're insanely strong and crazy". It doesn't mean Usopp or Nami or Sanji is strong, it means that the people affiliated with that crew are strong. So all in all, it depends on the crews actions and the members of th crew and what they want. Whitebeard wasn't looking to be famous, he just wanted a family. It just so happened his family was extremely powerfull. If your not that strong, take Buggy for example, and you want to be strong and famous, you recruit a large crew, like he did, of strong people, making that crew "more powerfull" in a way.