Pinned posts could be treated as a normal post on the home feed (hot, recent, and top).

Oh, now I get what you mean. I assumed that would be the case but I think that's not the case. Pinning might indeed prevent them from showing up in the home feed (even as unpinned items). Thanks for the notice! Will check.

I don't know if you noticed, but if the territory owner pins a post immediately after it is published, the OP will never be able to be zapped.

Isn't this the same question we had here?

Currently working on a fix