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Do search engines use content user ratings for ranking purposes?

I have a Q&A site where users can upvote and downvote the questions and answers. Does Google use these votes as a ranking signal? Will pages that my users vote up rank better than pages that my users vote down?
~~Does it matter if matter if I make this data machine readable to Google using a schema? Does the size of my site matter (is this something that Google only enables for popular sites?)~~

I have a Q&A site where users can upvote and downvote the questions and answers. Does Google use these votes as a ranking signal? Will pages that my users vote up rank better than pages that my users vote down?
Does it matter if I make this data machine readable to Google using a schema? Does the size of my site matter (is this something that Google only enables for popular sites?)

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