On their discussion about the voting system; there's multiple ways to fix it.
- You could have the fish nominate 3 people (top three people with most votes), but have audience decide on the elimination. You get the benefit of people "playing the game", but not the downside of interesting people getting the boot (as long as the audience doesn't go full retard).
- You can also have vote-to-save instead of vote-to-kick, which changes the dynamic.
- Instead of 1 fish getting 1 vote, you can give them 3 point votes (2 points for their bigger threat, 1 point for the lesser threat), which further changes the dynamic.
- You can even ban the discussion of voting completely, only let them discuss who they are voting for in the voting room (this has positives and negatives).
You can use all or any combination of these to make it so voting doesn't eliminate the most interesting people.