User blog comment:RoyallyBella/IMPORTANT: Late June Blog/@comment-5786897-20130621105119/@comment-25152063-20130622011724

This wasn't decision made by us. Global Wikia decided to upgrade the rules to make it a safer environment. And anyway, most anonymous users just vandalize all the time so I don't think it will impact much on our wiki. It's extremely rare if an anonymous editor makes a beneficial edit.