Any way to write a note online and get a link to it ?

Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:03 am

I frequent a few sites who share the evil character limit thing when it comes to their comments section. So having given up on just writing like 1531531515315312 comments because the comment section only allows like 500 letters to prevent spam I′m looking for alternative methods of doing it.

I remember a site where you could pain a picture online and then you could get a link with the picture and you could share the link. Problem with that site is that the picture size doesn′t allow for too many words and it′s bugged these days it seems. I′ve tried looking up sites where I could write notes online but they all seem to be aimed a people wishing to keep secret diaries doing everything except share the text... so does anyone know a site where I could write a short essay′s worth of a comment and then get a link to it so that I can bypass the character limit in a comment box by just putting up a short link instead ?

If anyone knows such a site or any other way to go around character limits then that would be nice. It′s really annoying how sites give in to spammers and take it out on those who wish to post long and insightful comments rather than spam, but I suppose it′s needed to keep spammers away.
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Kathryn Medows
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:39 am

You can do this with Google docs. Write up whatever you want in a document and open it up to the public.
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Jade Muggeridge
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:33 am

Copy/paste something from Word into a textbox in paint, save the image, and upload it to an image hosting site? That would probably wreak havoc with the formatting, though.
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Kristian Perez
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:49 am

I imagine most of the blog sites out there would work for this.
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Robyn Lena
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:49 am

https://simple-note.appspot.com/

http://pastebin.com/

There's also EverNote and Springpad, but I've never used them. You could also do it with a text file in your public dropbox

The main problem I see occuring, though, is: I know I certainly very rarely click on links in comments, especially links in comments that contain nothing but the link. Smells too much of spam and danger for my liking.
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Kristina Campbell
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:19 am

https://simple-note.appspot.com/

http://pastebin.com/

There's also EverNote and Springpad, but I've never used them. You could also do it with a text file in your public dropbox

The main problem I see occuring, though, is: I know I certainly very rarely click on links in comments, especially links in comments that contain nothing but the link. Smells too much of spam and danger for my liking.


I wouldn′t leave only the link :P I really hate when people do that, a explanation will always be in order.

BTW to everyone, thanks for the suggestions, gonna try some of them out.
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