In the context of the site, admin kueda commented the following on the obs I referenced above:
Humans being automarked captive “[is] not intended, but if it’s getting automatically marked as captive that would only happen if actual users have been marking humans as captive… which seems like a common problem. The automated votes are meant to amplify the work of minorities because so few people bother to mark things as captive, but clearly it leads to a lot of inaccurate data when it amplifies inaccurate data. I guess we’d consider functional changes to prevent that for humans (and yes, the Forum would be the place to start that discussion, but I don’t know what thread), but as with all crowdsourcing, the most important check against people’s poor judgement is the good judgement of other people, so if this really matters to you, you can start by marking observations of captive humans as wild.”