Theoretically, could editors have financial interests that infect their decisions?
Theoretically, yes. Corrupt editors don't last long though.
You might have misunderstood our objectives and how we operate here. ODP is a volunteer organisation building a directory as a hobby. Editors edit where they wish, when they wish and as much as they wish within the constraints of their permissions. We have no schedules or systems to force people to do work that they don't volunteer to do. ODP is not primarily a free listing service for website owners and it does not attempt to process their listing suggestions within the time scales desired by them.
Some volunteer will process your listing suggestion in time but we can't predict who or when that might be. Elapsed times can range from a few days to a few years. There is no need to re-suggest your website and doing so could be counter-productive because a later suggestion overwrites any earlier one.
If your website is listable, it's much more likely that it hasn't been listed simply because nobody has volunteered to evaluate it yet. If you think that's a problem, become part of the solution by volunteering to become an editor.
