Comments should work again.
Well, they should work for more people than they were working for, again.
To explain, I managed to add the text string ‘hi’ to MT-Blacklist — as a result, a lot of innocuous comments and no small number of friendly urls were being dropped into a ‘you can’t use those words’ error screen (which was, itself, also broken).
P.S.: Rebuilding all blog entries officially takes a long damn time.