Start conversations from public threads?

[Matthew Mucker]

I see in the tutorial that BiggerPockets "has transformed the concept of Private Messaging into the form of CONVERSATIONS."

It would be nice to be able to start one of these conversations from another member's public post, much like the "private message" function on other forums. It really is clunky to have to go to the dashboard, click on start conversation, and find the username of the person I want to converse with, when all of this could be done by clicking a link in the post that's made me want to PM.. er.. converse with that member.