As a newcomer I probably fucked it up.
I looked at it as you trying to feed us a narrative.
The worst part for me is that I come in and need to read 20 pages of posts to catch up. By page 10 of catchup I'm like fukcing hell Chris shut the F up I get it you have this thought. Then had 10 more pages of the same thing. And while I'm not a conspiracy theorist I am lol. I created the Chris/Jean conspiracy in my mind cause why the fuck not lol.
(note I still have 6 pages to catch up on and the game is over FFS).
When you are that behind. Skim them to get an initial idea of what is going on so you can talk to the players present then go back read again after you have some other conversations with those that are there. To get some type of reads on them.
If you need to iso certain players responses to others.
Best I can tell you. I was stuck in that for along time when the others were here playing and you would have 1000 posts or more to read because some wouldn't stop talking. Jean was bad at that back then but when there were like 20 people playing a game its very hard to keep up and then some players quoted and reposted every post that someone made so that would create more posts to read instead of giving thoughts or multi quoting posts.
Also make some notes here and there so you have things to look back on.
I.E. if someone says that they are pro day 1 lynch and dont vote. That can look scummy. Things like that.