This is a very useful FAQ and sorely needed.

However Hivewatchers general lack of transparency, automated downvoting of all content, forcing people to Discord (a centralised service that has nothing to do with Hive) to "appeal" are very problematic features.

When you set yourself up as the arbiters of what is allowed, you need to be beyond reproach, scrupulously fair and completely transparent. Hive watchers is none of those things.

It is important for Hivewatchers to understand that the law of defamation applies to them as it does to everyone else on Hive. If they wrongly flag something as plagiarism, and automatically downvote it, they have defamed the author and can be sued.