I am not sure what tools were used to find the issues. I ran it through Grammarly running on the Brave browser, and it came back ok for me. But there were issues.
The plagiarism is listed in the comments of the article.
The local I hired, I think, copied and pasted snippets from other pages without citing the sources. So, not one full article, but paragraphs or stats from other web pages about the topic.
I do take the responsibility, and yes, it's not good and is unacceptable.
Just wondering what the path forward is from here.
Will I be downvoted from here on out?
I'm not invested in the issue but I agree with the downvotes. If the trail lead I'm in makes the call to keep downvoting, I'll get behind it considering it's a pain in the ass to manually undownvoted and more convenient to follow a dv trail for cases like these. I think it's well deserved even if you were sincere about overlooking this small mistake. Just the consequences of a damaged reputation. It's not the end of the world, probably just going to ruin your Hive experience. Never hire freelancers to ghost write for you, and if caught, admitting you hired one doesn't make your case any better, arguably, it most likely made things even worse. See how @purepinay drama went down.
As Hivewatchers stated in their comment to you you can go to their Discord and appeal in their appeals channel.
I did appeal to have watchers already and they said I'm not on any Blacklist with them.
The issue is that they're still people who are downvoting me without providing a reason or path forward.
People don't need to give you a reason to DV, just like they don't for an UV.
You asked a third party to write for you and you posted it for rewards. That's ghost writing and it's frowned upon at hive. For that single reason I can and I will DV you. So now I have given you explanation.