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I applied to become the editor myself but was declined. What should I do?
Basically it's like this: nobody has a right to get indexed by the ODP. You don't pay them, they don't promise to index all the web.
It's absolutely useless to join the army of webmasters who are stuck in raging against the ODP, because their site didn't get listed. There are more fruitful ways of spending one's time.