Well, this is a new one!
Over the years when performing gas station shops I've been admonished by the editors for missing a sign on the site's property or any type of non gas station related advertising, stickers and graffiti on the pumps or anywhere on the site. During election years, with all the signs, etc, it has always been a problem.
This was not such a big problem until IPSOS came along. Previously, I might get told about it by an editor and the shop was approved. As the years went by, I became more diligent, taking the photo and noting the infraction in the debrief or report or whatever it has been termed.
With IPSOS it impacts your score - meaning, of course, your ability to self-assign.
So, under IPSOS, I continued my diligence, yet still sometimes missing the minor ones. Of which, were the stickers on the pumps with an image of the president of the US pointing to price saying "I did that".
I was told about those, that they were considered graffiti.
My bad - I did miss them! And, I agreed, they were not related to the gas station, they were a political statement - just like the political signs during election years.
So, I became even more diligent, and always ensure that I looked for them (as well as anything else stuck to the pump itself that in the past, I might have let go).
But now, I see, with the December shops or any others that are performed November 24 through the end of the year, those particular stickers are allowed.
So in this long explanation, I have 3 comments:
1 Those times when I missed those stickers and it impacted my scores, do I now get my score updated and improved?
2 Does this mean that since these are now allowed that the station's employees are careless in their housekeeping?
3 On a more existential thought, no matter a personal political preference, one way or another, could we get away from politics?