diff --git a/app/controllers/iqdb_queries_controller.rb b/app/controllers/iqdb_queries_controller.rb
index e5b88b425..abd23e002 100644
--- a/app/controllers/iqdb_queries_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/iqdb_queries_controller.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # todo: move this to iqdbs
 class IqdbQueriesController < ApplicationController
-  before_filter :member_only
   respond_to :html, :json, :xml
 
   def index