I have submitted countless sites to DMOZ during my career as a web designer. Each and every time…they were rejected…with no explaination as to why or I simply got back no response.
And I have been rejected as an editor there a few times as well…for both non-gambling related categories and gambling categories.
A few of the rejection letters (for editor applications) did give me some explainations. And I assure you…they were dead wrong almost everytime.
I got back things like “Could even open such and such website…” Even though I double checked the link before I submitted…even checked after I got the rejection letter…and yes the link still worked.
Or I would get something like “Such and such site has nothing to do with the category….” When in fact if the reviewer had actually gone to the site and looked around…they would see that it did.
When you get back responses like these…It leaves a feeling that the editors and reviewers are not doing there jobs. So why do SEs rely on DMOZ so much?