User blog comment:BertH/Anonymous editing and your community/@comment-26009167-20150809221815/@comment-26492510-20150816133606

Well MichiRecRoom, It is a tool to prevent vandalism, its just not blatant at first. If moderators, admins etc. were to go on the history of a page, they would be able to find the source of the problem as the user would not be anonymous. Sure you could say they can still findand block a(n) visitor/anonymous contributor and you'd be a 100% correct but wikia is exanding rapidly and with this expansion, comes new admins who may feel a bit threatened by vandals. So in a way it is actually a tool to prevent vandalism.

Sincerely ~9k Editor

PS. I am not a staff....