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Your sentence fragment invalidates your entire argument.
The first sentence is also a sentence fragment and the period should be placed before the ending quotation marks.
Does the period in quotation mark rule applies to quotes? I don't think it does, but this stuff always confuses me.
It actually might be correct they way they did it since they were quoting a word rather than a complete sentence. It is indeed confusing. I figured if I were wrong, someone might correct me and I'd learn something.
"not very persuasive" is not a sentence fragment. Sentences need a subject, verb, and a complete thought.
"Don't do that" has an implied subject of (you). "Not very persuasive" shares the same type implied subject and is a complete sentence.
Bonus fun fact, the shortest complete sentence in the English language is "I am" but not "I'm" because contractions are inherently dependent.
https://socratic.org/questions/what-is-an-implied-subject#:~:text=Implied%20subjects%20occur%20when%20a,the%20subject%20is%20not%20mentioned.
"Don't do that" is a correct imperative sentence, which as your link says does not have a subject. "Not very persuasive" is not imperative and is indeed a sentence fragment.