What is the amount collected at the moment? Where can I find this information and check?
You can check this info on web site.
It is not that hard, just open and check out. it is around 100 btc at the moment.
I agree with your opinion. on the website of a project has become a source of information about things related to the project. if indeed you have read before asking, it will not cause questions that already have answers in a project website. I think there are people who are just asking questions without reading the whole project.
Often a lot of questions in the topic leave those users who have very little free time to search for the necessary information. They asked a question, then after some time they looked at the topic and read the answer.