I did actually make one of them. :)

My favorite one was when we knew we had to take the site down for a few hours, so we made a page with curated content a-la-Slashdot where you couldn't vote or comment and it just stayed that way for a few hours. We just picked some of our favorite sites.

But we didn't warn the sites we were linking to and some of them got quite a shock with the sudden influx of traffic!

"You broke reddit :("

i remember those days, reddit was a lot down, and you did a lot of maintenance in europe time, so i would be productive at work.