The tag alias #59309 audience -> crowd has been rejected.

Reason: Any nuance between the two tags is far too subtle to warrant separation, and in practice both tags seem to be used in identical situations.

EDIT: The tag alias audience -> crowd (forum #349265) has been rejected by @gattonero2001.

I feel like there's a worthy difference, an audience is gathered to watch something (they could all be seated in a theatre to watch a performance, or on the bleachers at a sports game) as opposed to a crowd could be anywhere like just aimlessly standing in a field or all packed inside an elevator.

crowd + audience
post #3393749 post #3637234 post #3077921
post #2976714 post #2784233 post #2748455

crowd (but probably not audience)
post #3502496 post #3415326 post #3409884
post #3389302 post #3357271 post #3344261

I'd say audience could imply crowd but it looks like there's the occasional exception to this like post #2870691 - which clearly depicts a live audience but only two of the characters are actually shown, which shouldn't quality for a crowd.

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I was planning to ask someone someday when I need to know about these tags, and this is it.
My personal notes state the following：

• audience： Any people who are there, and do have an obvious purpose to watch something.　"Someone or more characters" and/or "perform on a stage".
• crowd： Any people who are just there and didn't have any purpose, But watching what's happening.　In public , for example ?

Perhaps these ideas are wrong, And there is an appropriate tag for the latter "crowd"?

faucet said:
I feel like there's a worthy difference, (...)

Ahh ... Damn, Your response is more detailed than mine.
I agree with you mostly, but should I see "audience" could be made up of "crowd"?

I thought they were two different things, except they are group.

An audience could conceivably be made up of one or two individuals who are clearly spectating or watching something. A crowd is a much larger group of individuals who could be spectating, just milling around, or intent on some activity that has nothing to do with watching someone else. In fact, it's plausible that a crowd could be doing something watched by an audience without the two being the same thing, such as a lone parent sitting on the bleachers during an afterschool sport practice.

clawstripe said:
An audience could conceivably be made up of one or two individuals who are clearly spectating or watching something. A crowd is a much larger group of individuals who could be spectating, just milling around, or intent on some activity that has nothing to do with watching someone else. In fact, it's plausible that a crowd could be doing something watched by an audience without the two being the same thing, such as a lone parent sitting on the bleachers during an afterschool sport practice.

Bear in mind that both audience and crowd currently implicate group.

But more to the point, does e6 really gain anything if we split the tags like this?

The tag alias audience -> crowd (forum #349265) has been rejected by @gattonero2001.