Reginald Plum’s role in the Ask an Apologist (AAA) forum is different from that of Catholic Answers’ apologists. He is not an apologist, so he does not answer questions with original answers. He answers duplicate questions by giving links to the previous answers staff apologists have already given. CAF provides this service because we know that many new members come here only to find a quick answer to a specific question and are uninterested in learning the site sufficiently to find the answers to their questions themselves.