I submitted a friend’s site to Dmoz, http://www.liquidpulse.net/ , in the /Computers/Programming/Resources/ section and that site was up in Dmoz within a week.
Anything to do with gambling, however, is incredibly commercial and the number of submits must be mind-boggling.
We’re in an industry that is ripe with junk sites, spam sites, banner farms, copied content, aggressive webmasters, and low on quality. I can’t imagine how much garbage the editors for commercial categories must sift through. It’s more likely than not that the editors are also harassed by aggressive webmasters. It’s a wonder Dmoz keeps these categories published at all.
It’s unquestionable that they (the editors) quickly don a cynical attitude towards all sites submitted, and the only gambling site that has an ice cube’s chance in hell of being accepted and listed by Dmoz these days will have to be impossibly great and packed with original content. My guess is that editors in gambling categories give each submission a 2 second peak before deciding if it’s worth a closer look.
If you don’t think being in dmoz is beneficial, think again. Think about the backlinks. May not get you traffic directly, but those backlinks are worth more than 1000 recip links from crappy gambling sites. I would love to be listed in Dmoz, but I realize it’s not likely to happen. I submit once a year – just in case.