Him asking isn’t so weird. It’s not that he wouldn’t have known the answer most likely. tor.stackexchange.com was in staging or beta or something by then still. Meaning, if activity or quality (or whatever private company stackexchange.com decides) would have been too low, stackexchange would have shut down tor.stackexchange.com. So it was an initial community effort to get the ball rolling so to speak. I also asked questions and answered back then to make the page worthwhile.
Also, perhaps TPO uses this page so others will find these answers on google or perhaps even their support desk (still existing) refers to it?
Because otherwise also this question would seem strange if asked by him.