How to fix the boards "bandwagon" effect.

To fully understand the argument, read thoroughly to the end. And thanks for your time.

This is going to be about the psychological "bandwagon" effect of the boards community. For instance, lets say a new post received two down votes within the first 10 minutes. Everyone else will already have a subjective attitude towards the post, either creating less traffic by not clicking on the post, or by furthering the downvotes. Even if the idea was good, the first 20 that viewed the post and two disliked, it will dictate the future of the post. Same thing happens with upvotes too, it will create a snowball effect. What this means is that a select group of people, usually the first 20-50 readers will create a bandwagon effect. For example, if a meme or gameplay post has no up votes or downvotes, the post is looked at objectively. On the other hand, a post with 4 downvotes will create this perception that "This post has downvotes, so whatever is on it must mean its bad." Although, if you take the same exact post, and put 10 likes on it with your alternate accounts, it will create the opposite perception. This is why sometimes you read a post with some downvotes on it, then read the same post from another well-respected individual that blows up with over 100 upvotes. How do I think this can be fixed? Hide the upvotes/downvotes for the first hour and replace it with a (?). What this will do is it allows everyone to dictate the post by themselves and not let a couple downvotes discourage an upvote. It also fixes how the first 20-50 readers do not dictate whether the post dies or blows up to over 5k readers. If you don't think this solution would work, tell me why.

Also posted this in Boards Feedback. It fits well in both categories but since Boards Community & Moderation is a new category, I thought it would be best to bring this topic up in it first.