I have a users collection in firestore where each document has an int "vote" field. Can i make this a paremeter in typesense to influence searching? Ie, if a user types "bob", and two documents hold the name bob, the bob with more votes will be returned first.

Yup, here's how to do this: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/ranking-and-relevance.html#tie-breaking-based-ranking

Awesome, ty!