I've been seeing an uptick of sauce-fights, and IMO it's because we have a huge influx of new pedes who do not understand our ways. It seems like this is a good time to go over some of the basics of TDW sauce etiquette.

We have a certain culture here, there is a right way and a wrong way to ask for sauce. Let's break it down, shall we?

1. The onus is on the person who offers up the comment/post to provide the sauce upon request. PERIOD.

2. If you don't have the sauce, that's your bad. If the thing you are asserting is fairly common knowledge, not having the sauce is not that big a deal. It's still your fault but TDW forgives you. BUT, if you are asserting something insane, breaking, habbening, or juicy new development, you better have that effin sauce. And etiquette would say that you should offer the tendies WITH the sauce in that case, no one should even have to ask for it.

3. If you dont have the sauce, you say you don't have it and apologize. Even if its the smallest of apologies. "Sry, do not haz, my bad" is generally good enough on the less crucial info. And that's the end of that. If someone is hassling you because you don't have sauce, they are correct to hassle you if you've said something crazy, but they are in the wrong to hassle you if what you are saying is something normal.

4. It is your right as a pede to ask for sauce on anything you want without getting hassled. If someone says to you, "don't be lazy/a fag/a liberal, do your own research", they are not from here, and they deserve to be downvoted into oblivion. This place is FOR RESEARCH. Providing sauces for eachother is what we do here.

5. When you ask for sauce, you must not be a dick about it.

6. When providing sauce, you must not be a dick about it.

This is the way of the TDW. Any other way = downdoot.

EXAMPLE A

PEDE A: Man, Nelson Mandela is the shit

PEDE B: Nuh-uh, Mandela was a piece of shit, he used to put people in tires and light them on fire.

PEDE A: WOT. Do you haz sauce?

PEDE B: I'm sorry I don't, but some other pede around here prolly does... you could find out about it by DDG-ing ___________. If nothing turns up for you let me know and I'll see what I can dig up.

PEDE A: Rats, I was hoping for sauce. :(

PEDE B: It's kind of common knowledge around here, you can ask around. Sorry I was not ready with muh sauce.

(in this example, both pedes use correct etiquette)

EXAMPLE B

PEDE A: I heard ourguys raided a R0thsch1ld bunker in the Antarctic.

PEDE B: WOT. Where is your sauce?

PEDE A: A bunch of people are talking about it on twatter

PEDE B: YOU ARE A TOTAL FAG. SAUCE OR GTFO, SHILL

(in this example, Pede A = incorrect Pede B = correct)

EXAMPLE C

PEDE A: Amy Coney Barret adopted kids from Haiti

PEDE B: WOT, can I haz sauce?

PEDE A: It's common knowledge, idiot. Go look it up or are you too lazy? Quit being a liberal.

PEDE B: FUCK YOU, NECKBEARD.

(in example C, Pede A = incorrect Pede B = correct)