I used to run a writing community online, a very old (by internet standards), well-populated one, and I had to ask myself whether to include it on my resume because to the uninformed it sounded like I spent my free time writing crappy poetry in front of a computer instead of doing something "real" when in reality it was a 20+ hour a week job I didn't get paid for, trying to appease an impossible editorial staff and a cadre of writers who really, really cared about the place without having any actual power to get anything done.

Nowadays if I were in that position, I would include it without thinking twice. Attitudes about the internet have changed. It's gotten an edge of seriousness to it now that it didn't have 7 or 8 years ago.

WoW is sort of the same thing, plus the added stigma of it being a GAME, and it's in the same place now that my old website was in then. So no, categorically no, I would NOT include WoW on my resume. Even if I knew the people I would end up working with gamed I would just mention it in the interview and not put it on paper.

In 10 years? MAYBE. But even then I'd have a hard time conflating the two.

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