When you quote a text in a comment on the 0AD site, only QUOTE appears above the text and nothing else, not a box or something like you see on the forum. I wonder if it could be changed because that would make it much clearer.
I lost my last one when I was, I think, 12 years old, maybe 13. I just wabbled them for so long that they would fall out on their own. It doesn't really hurt that way.