I just noticed that my forum is DMOZ listed, i've heard lots about this site, and i am not 100% sure what's so great and why it's so hard to get into it. Is it a good thing that i'm listed?
Did you read the sticky thread in this forum section yet? http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1504323 In addition to that link i posted for you, you can also search this forum section for answer's.
Your site was probably listed by an editor that found the site whilst surfing the net. Inclusion in ODP can only be a good thing, but certainly not the magic link that people in this forum believe it to be. The most important thng is that the site is good quality, has unique content and these two attribues are what is important, far more important that the actual DMOZ listing.
Sorry for the people who say they are still waiting. But I try to continually explain that we are not set up to be a directory that lists only the sites suggested. We operate as volunteers working in our spare time for no monetary reward. We offer to work in areas that we have knowledge and expertise and areas that we 'want' to work in. Sometimes that means we will work in boring areas as well as the ones we have a real interest in. But in the end we spend as much or as little time, provided it is above one edit per 4 months, as we can spare given our other hobbies, work, home life etc. Our main task is to build categories for surfers and suggestions in some areas are almost entirely spam so we are not at all bound to just use or to look at suggestions and can use any resource that we as editor and some knowledge in an area want to use. That is not quite what people who want to be listed in DMOZ, because it is seen as having high page rank, used by Google directory and offering hundreds of backlinks want to know. How our free to use data is used is not up to us and we have no control over what Google do or do not do with it. It is suggested that because we focus on the end user, don't worry about how well a site is built, but on unique content, is the reason Google do use us. So if your site meets up to guidelines then one day an editor will get round to sorting out the suggestions, if only to clear the junk out, and in that process you may well get listed. Once again sorry if that is not what you want to hear, but it is how DMOZ wqorks, there are plenty of other directories you can pay or offer for free.
You really only needed to type the part I bolded Editors are not required to even look at the suggestions! That means, in some categories not suggestion will offer the exact same wait time *shrug* My site is listed, yet DMOZ is not listed as one of my backlinks! On it's "hundred" clones, only one is... As for focusing on the end user, that is also debatable. Look around here at Digital Point, you will find that many editors will claim that UNIQUE content is the best way to get in, yet there is one site on the ODP with nearly TWENTY THOUSAND deep links of duplicated content.... why is that? Simple. It's owned by an editor. So who is the ODP serving? Well, by their own examples, themselves. Even look at the guy I am quoting, he keeps going on about how I listed my own site while I was there... Why to go calling suggestions JUNK
Sorry, no one can say when it will be reviewed, but we can say that Page Rank, Alexa listing modern well constructed site will have no bearing on if the site is listed or when it will be reviewed.
You can tell if it is a good thing. Just go the the category your site is listed in. And check other sites there. Your web is being compared with those in the same category. Somebody (the editor who added your site) thinks you site is the same quality of those listed there.