Ask PG/HN: Please make ranking criteria more transparent

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2495137 is ranked 17th on the front page. It has 661 votes and was submitted ~3 hours ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2495043 is ranked 14th. It has 32 points and was submitted ~4 hours ago.

Posts 1-16 all have fewer points than the 17th ranked post and many of them were submitted long before the 17th ranked post.

I'm assuming that the 17th ranked post (submitted by wdewind) was flagged by a lot of people or that a moderator chose to push it down the ranks.

Can you please make the ranking criteria more transparent (for instance, if 400 people flagged this submission, display that number. If a moderator pushed it down the ranks, make it public etc.)