Appreciate your time @davidw sharing these points. All that content has been generated to give life to the territory and the aim to inspire and guide stackers to publish some items. we understand it fail and created much noise and disturbance than actual value.
Am not sure a product-post type will work, we see it more as a new or revamped ad-post time... similar to jobs, where publisher can also add featured image and location in case of P2P IRL item.
I agree it should be possible to add ad-post on specific territories, but if the new territories-as-tag get released properly, enabling multi-territory crossposting it will be also nice to have a territory like the ~AGORA to collect all the ads and enable a more specific search based on other criteria like geolocation 1.

Footnotes

  1. As explained in option #3 above.
I really do think you’ve done an excellent job of expanding the vision of what SN can be. Even if it feels like it’s a stretch with the templates, you’re doing a good job of trying to make it work. We’re all paying attention even if it’s not for my daily feed right now.
An advert very much differs to a product. One involves paying someone to look at your offering. One involves offering organically. That’s why adopting the ad type I don’t believe is the right methodology. But I certainly see how adopting the same flow & parameters could work well with a new SN product or buy/sell type.