That's just how HN works. Story rank is determined not only by upvotes and submission time, but by numerous other factors including active moderation. We're unlikely to publish all that because doing so would increase two bad things: attempts to game the site, and meta nitpicking. Those are bad in their own right
and eat up the resources we have for making HN better, so it's in the community interest to minimize them.
The approach we've taken re transparency on HN is not to make all the data public but rather to answer users' questions about how the site works or what's going on in specific cases. That seems to be the optimum.