Ask HN: Transparency for Penalties

The whole penalty system seems very opaque to me. For example, I submitted a link today morning that reached the second position on the front page. Obviously people were interested. Next thing you know, it's on page 8 (yes, the change was very sudden) See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8221682 It's not political/controversial etc. just plain news article.

Wouldn't it be good to have some transparency in these kinds of situations? If there is manual action, should we not, at least, know the reason behind that action? Doesn't anyone else feel this way?