The Conversation was originally created to allow scholars of all disciplines to share knowledge. It could be general questions that other academics could relate to. It could also be questions related to things that are discipline-centric. The reputation points earned from discipline-centric questions and answers are intended to give a journal a nice little shorthand to assess one's abilities as a potential reviewer.
Since the Conversation has become dominated by very general questions and answers, I think the time may have come where we need to branch out and create different sections for different disciplines.
Of course, there are disciplines that already have Q&A forums. For instance, there's already a MathOverflow for mathematicians and a CSTheory site for computer scientists. Though, to my knowledge, there are plenty of other disciplines that would be well served by having access to a Q&A forum.
So - what do you all think about the Conversation being broken up into discipline specific chunks?
