Call it, as you like it, dear friend. But how you call it, shows how you are thinking about our interaction. Is our conversation worth nothing but a vote, or does the vote show the worth of an conversation. I call it positive interaction, in our case and I know, you would call it the same.
Some people are creating nasty circle-jerks and some circles are miners of a community, talking, discussing, laughing and then voting, of course.

That's what communities are made for. Because to spend a vote is a friendly and mandatory act if a blogger likes, what an other miner said. I think, only lonely miners, envious people not involved in lively communities would name our discussion round a circle-jerk. At Deutsch Unplugged it is almost a matter of course to vote for comments that you like.