As a DMOZ editor I can tell you I submitted an application 6 times before I became an editor. Your application has to be very good for you to even be considered. Make sure that you have no typo's and that your submitted sites are both relavant to the cat you are applying for and a good representation of the category. Also, if you have a site affiliated with the category you are applying for and that site makes money....good luck with that. DMOZ creates a large influx of backlinks to your site because of the number of clones online. Think of it like this, if you were an editor of a directory that would make or break a site would you let me as a person who sells widgets edit the widget category? Not only could I add my own sites, but, I could make sure my competition didn't ever show up. One last thing about applying is make sure you apply for a very low level category and work your way up. Applying for Shopping->Widgets on your first go will not only get you declined but probably laughed at it would make more sense to apply for Shopping->Widgets->Regional->North America->United States->Kansas and work up to it slowly. Becoming an editor is not a matter of them versus you, it's a matter of those applying using a bit of common sense and looking at it from the point of view of those in control of the directory.

To sum up:

Use common sense!

PaleSpyder

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Jason Lewis
5th Age Designs: Kansas Web Design