Question: Why does copy/paste exclude # comments in code?

I was posting some code on a forum tonight. I specificially added # comments to the code. I used Ctrl_c ,Crtl_v. All the # comments were removed including the 2016 grey boxes which appeared as NULL.

Is there away around this. The comments were very important to help in understanding. The pasted code did look readable though.

I also experimented with exporting the code as .txt and opening it in Word. Required loads of editing to make it look presentable, which really opend the door to introuucing errors, also all # coments were removed too.

The forum just has the normal type comments box. Nothing fancy. Actually it is a WordPress Blog. It does accept latex but that is ok for one or two lines. Could be a real mess if 30--40 lines of code go wrong and latex as far as I know can't be copy/pasted back in to Maple.