There is no advantage to your sites ranking if you are an editor. Unless you edit in a category and you include your own site (which you are allowed to do under the guidelines, but you have to treat competitor sites equally) - BUT, if this is the reason you applied to be an editor ... then go away, DMOZ do not want you.

I have heard of one senior editor who submitted one of there own sites to a category that he/she does not edit in .... they have been waiting 2 years ... so even being an editor in another category does not get you an advantage.

You will hear scuttlebut about how corrupt so many editors are ... now and then it does happen and they get booted - but it is only a very small minority. Most allegation of editor misbehaviour made in forums are never backed up with facts.

CBP