Commenting on things over the internet, especially things with our real life names tied to them, is hardly any different than sharing it in person, it's just that the other guy can't punch you for calling them stupid or something. I viewed it no differently than the "Write a bio" assignment. If it were to be pseudo-anonymity, where we all had different screen names that we didn't associate with in any way other than opinion, then we could afford to be harsher and pick apart the post more, since we wouldn't have to tiptoe around whether or not they would get their feelings hurt.
Before speaking with my group, I only saw Rhetoric as a tool, a means to an end. It was a way of displaying information in a way that it would benefit the user, based on what the user wanted. After discussing it, we figured out that while that definition fit, the act of using it to display information turned it into a tool for persuasion by definition.
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