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dang, can you comment on why this was flagged?

probably not. users can flag anything they want for any reason.

but dang unflags when it's not flagged for good reasons. And I would think he's awake now.

I don't think he does that very often, since he doesn't know the reasons. You could also try contact him directly instead of expecting him to see a random comment you left.

are you saying that dang doesn't have an alert that is triggered when a match of \bdang\b is found?

I've seen more than once people "invoke" dang by simply drooping his name and then voila! he instantly appeared.

as far as I know he doesn't. The site guidelines even explicitly ask to email.

Users flagged it.

Testament to what capitalism can do.