The gist of it is that while emotes in their own right are fine, and in a lot of cases, you can even hit them multiple times, the case you have listed above isn't about that. The case above is someone who was asked to stop but continued anyway specifically to grief the other players in the game.
You shouldn't have even validated the OP's thread by posting here. There is no reasonable comparison between the actions of the banned summoner and your "in jest" comment during a champion spotlight. For reals....
Normally I wouldn't, but getting 15 pages of comments in 3 hours is pretty high/fast. The thread was basically already validated by that point, and with that many views there's bound to be some confusion somewhere.
Phreak should be banned. Proof's here.
http://leagueoflegends.com/tribunal/en/case/5930455/
How Phreak did the exactly same offence:
http://youtu.be/ZOpT__qwjdQ?t=2m56s
roit pls
WookieeCookie put out a series of great responses on a similar issue. You can follow his posts here: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/...39662#31839662
The gist of it is that while emotes in their own right are fine, and in a lot of cases, you can even hit them multiple times, the case you have listed above isn't about that. The case above is someone who was asked to stop but continued anyway specifically to grief the other players in the game.
I never recommended that.