On Friday, a longtime Mortal Kombat producer used his Twitter account to denounce the service over how it enables anonymous abuse, then said he will "quit" the site.

Shaun Himmerick, executive producer of the upcoming sequel Mortal Kombat X, responded to a tweet from a supposed fighting-game fan with a less-than-charming request for the series' next iteration. The fan's Twitter account no longer exists; it may have been suspended after the user sexually threatened Himmerick's wife over whether a longtime MK character might return to the new sequel.

Himmerick posted a screencap of the offending tweet with the caption, "Why I'll quit Twitter." He then clarified that his beef wasn't with posts about his games but about his family. He decried attacks aimed at both him and his daughter, though he didn't repost or quote any examples of these—it's not clear whether these threats have also been made or whether he was being preemptive.

"I used to be thick-skinned enough for the random personal attacks," Himmerick wrote. "I'm a big boy, I can handle it. I've been in my share of fights. You wanna fight me for any reason, I'm probably willing to go, verbally or physically. I can hold my own. But threats on my ladies? No."

The game maker joined the ranks of other recent high-profile critics of Twitter's use as a venue for abusive and threatening speech, including actress Ashley Judd, former baseball player Curt Schilling, and EA executive Peter Moore. Twitter responded in December to Moore's issue—receiving tweets that threatened his family—by saying that the offending account was "not violating the Twitter rules." Moore's story was possibly one of the incidents that helped spur Twitter CEO Dick Costolo into taking action in February; the company's most recent effort to deal with abuse was to add a "quality filter" option for verified accounts.

Despite announcing his plan to quit, Himmerick's account has since retweeted five posts, including two that criticized Indiana governor Mike Pence for signing SB 101 into law.