if i sat at a table and saw someone with a 5x buy-in stack i'd be wary of them. Speshly if i saw their stats seemed strong and realised they were an ok player.

Yeah, wtf with all the $2 fish! here's a promise and a symptom of what we mean by starting tables attracting a different type of player: start a table, the first few people to join will join with $2 stacks. It's weird. Either that or like $2.46 stack... ??? who buys in for that!? But just watch. Soon as they do, you can preeetty much go: fish.