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I use ! to sort to top, and ฮฉ to sort to bottom. So far haven't had any compatibility problems.
For the curious: the use case for this is when you want to reduce nesting but also want a sort of "soft hierarchy" within a folder. I could separate my music folder into albums and playlists, but then I'd have a mostly empty folder, so instead I put both in the same directory and use prefix naming to sort them.
This is an exact answer to the question and yet reading it makes my skin crawl. TIL I have opinions on file organization!
I don't usually "pin to top" or "pin to bottom" but I often have pseudo-folders that use a similar approach, for instance