I don't think this would help much though. The fandom tag with the most recs that doesn't already has subdivisions (like the generic Marvel tag) is "Bandom" so probably adding additional tags for bands and/or artists would help more, but I have no idea how that fandom divides itself. Then there ist Doctor Who, which probably is divided by doctors or "old" and "new"? But I know there spin-offs too, and I'm not in that fandom either. But in both cases I think the most useful additional tags would still be "fandom" ones.
In Harry Potter, which is the only other tag with more than a hundred, different tags might help, but those would likely be "character" ones and having character tags just for big fandoms but not small would make me really twitchy.
And since the rec form has a character field and reccer are supposed to always use full names (rather than say "John") you can already just search for those names from the profile anyway.
"Tolkien" seems the next largest with a bit over 80, and there the "natural" division is Silmarillion vs. LOTR vs. The Hobbit, which again is a kind of fandom division, but then several characters are shared across.
The next largest fandoms all have 50-60 recs which is three pages back clicking, so not that bad, and probably still easier than memorizing the DW syntax for combining two tags, to only show gen SPN or SGA recs or such, for which afaik you have to edit the URL with some "mode" thing that I always have to look up. I think most DW users probably aren't even aware this exists.
Re: More tags
In Harry Potter, which is the only other tag with more than a hundred, different tags might help, but those would likely be "character" ones and having character tags just for big fandoms but not small would make me really twitchy.
And since the rec form has a character field and reccer are supposed to always use full names (rather than say "John") you can already just search for those names from the profile anyway.
"Tolkien" seems the next largest with a bit over 80, and there the "natural" division is Silmarillion vs. LOTR vs. The Hobbit, which again is a kind of fandom division, but then several characters are shared across.
The next largest fandoms all have 50-60 recs which is three pages back clicking, so not that bad, and probably still easier than memorizing the DW syntax for combining two tags, to only show gen SPN or SGA recs or such, for which afaik you have to edit the URL with some "mode" thing that I always have to look up. I think most DW users probably aren't even aware this exists.