When Zygethia was active on the universe project in official chat channels (webchat) we spoke in formalities such as kneeling, addressing by rank etc.. 

It makes it more immersive and fun :) 

The salutes I useually get are rarely formal and never polite. I really dont understand why.

I really like annimated emotes in game, it can really bring a character to life. It can also make social interaction quick and easy to start. A quick '/wave' is often enough to start  conversation.

I also like emotes to have text. While Elder Scrolls Online has emotes there is no text linked to them so if someone is just out of your camera view you do not know they are trying to contact you. Realistic, sure. However, for the benefit of social interaction a text prompt is beneficial, though only on a small scale.

I also like the way Lord of the Rings Online managed the text prompt. You could '/wave' and you would get "Character waves" in chat or "Character waves at Target" if they currently have a mob, including player characters, selected. However, you could also write '/wave waves her hand regally as the passersby.' or '/wave waves her hand regally at ;target as she passes by.' that way you would still get the annimation but the text prompt would be modifed to what you had written including your targeted mob if desired.

Sounds precisely what I am thinking. 

Fantastic! 

Its called crouching up and down really fast.

This would be a really cool feature indeed, the LOTRO thing ^^ Huge fan of LOTRO played it for years, so :P

Slap was one of them... Dont remember if the head turned, but the slap was real XD

I hope they won't split emotes up between male and female emotes, because the more emotes the better, don't begin to put your restrictions on them.