When I see an answer that I think is okay, correct but not fabulously so, I have a tendency to upvote it if it has only a few votes – but not if it has lots of votes. Sort of an anti-bandwagon effect. Now I have noticed that when I myself write an answer that falls into this category, like a straightforward textbook answer to an easy question, it often collects a few points very rapidly, then upvotes stop coming. Which leads me to the conjecture that many others have a similar voting behaviour (strategy seems like too big a word) as I outlined initially. Am I right?

The election got me thinking a bit more about the issue of people seeing the vote totals when they decide to vote. It occurs to me that we could simply hide vote counts with css. I don't think it would be very good permanently, but I'm really curious how voting habits would change. At some point, people suggested hiding reputation, but I was opposed to it because I think seeing reputation is useful. Seeing vote counts is useful too. If we hid them, answers would still be sorted by votes, so you'd know which ones are the best, but you wouldn't know which ones are awesome. But I think the experiment of hiding vote counts would be much more interesting than the one of hiding reputation, so I'm floating the idea.

If you want to get an idea of what pages would look like to determine if it would be annoying, visit a page and type the following into the location bar:

javascript:$(".vote-count-post,.favoritecount,.comment-score,.votes").hide();void(0);

@Sune: The location bar is that text field usually near the top of your browser in which you can type a web address and which otherwise shows the address of the present page. It is possible that it is hidden when you are not actively using it, depending on the setting of your preferences.