Hello, I have the same question as many others - I submitted a site <url removed> for the catagory http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Travel/Travelogues/ and I have no idea what's going on with the submission status? Just be patient or give up trying? It's been about 5 or 6 months now - I'm not angry about it or anything I'm just wondering if I should try submitting again or give up?
I quess I'm not the only one waiting :)
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You wouldn't be penalized for submitting one more time but, really, after that it's best for you to just forget about it and move on to something else -- eventually someone will review the site suggestion but, since we can't tell you how long that might take, there's no point in hanging around waiting, right? 
Whenever you can find super spammy sites in the ODP, please report them in the "quality feedback" thread. Since each site is added separately, it's impossible to give a meaningful general statement of why spammy sites are listed (which is not, note well, the same thing as "why spammy sites GET listed." But that really doesn't matter much.) We'd be very happy to show you how spammy sites get DE-listed!
Sometimes the not-so-good sites have been listed for some time and have either changed since originally listed or were listed when listing criteria was less stringent; we don't always have the manpower to review existing listings for quality assurance. If you have noticed some sites that you think no longer meet our listing guidelines, you can report them in the Quality Control Feedback forum -- there's a thread stickied at the top of the forum for just that kind of thing.
Sometimes editors make mistakes and list sites they shouldn't. Those are usually caught by other editors but sometimes they slip past.
Sometimes there's editor abuse but that's a rare occurrence overall. And we deal with it very seriously.
As for why good sites don't get listed, the usual reason is simply that no one has chosen to edit in that area to list those sites. I know that seems facetious but really, if, say, I choose not to edit in category A today and no one else does either, then nothing gets done in category A today.
Sometimes editors make mistakes and list sites they shouldn't. Those are usually caught by other editors but sometimes they slip past.
Sometimes there's editor abuse but that's a rare occurrence overall. And we deal with it very seriously.
As for why good sites don't get listed, the usual reason is simply that no one has chosen to edit in that area to list those sites. I know that seems facetious but really, if, say, I choose not to edit in category A today and no one else does either, then nothing gets done in category A today.