WWoofers leaving early

we only had 1 couple take off so far (for a week in the middle of their 3 week stay...) but it actually worked out for the better - we were happy to get somebody else instead of them - or nobody at all. Or at least so we thought.... But the ones that came after them were even worse!! Actually ended up sending them away, they caused so much damage and had no common sense at all...
I think it'd be great if hosts could leave feedback for each other's info/warning!

When the whole question of feedback was first mentioned some of us suggested that it was appropriate for feedback to be a two way process both for wwoofer and host.

I absolutely agree! We don't want it to turn into a bit of a "getting your own back" session. Who's perfect? There are always going to be situations we're not so happy with, but these are more than balanced out by the good times we have with WWOOFers.
The only thing we need to establish really, is a sense of responsibility to each other. We know, for very good reasons we can't just evict a difficult WWOOFer without notice, they need time to find something else.
They need to understand, there are ramifications if they just pull out without giving their host opportunity to find replacements.
Truth is, for the most part, with give and take on both sides WWOOFing works incredibly well, and is overwhelmingly a positive experience for us all.

This has happened to us twice this year and it is upsetting when you're trying to make sure that your Wwoofers are happy and well catered for, as well as arrange the work programme for all.
Both times, notice has been given the day before and the Wwoofers leave without an apology. This time I pointed out that I had turned people down to provide them with a place, to which they replied that I would be able to find new replacements as they'd seen some Wwoofers looking for places on the forum.
I think some of us fall foul of living in useful locations for travel, where bookings are made with us to tide them over until they can go where they're actually headed.
The majority of Wwoofers are excellent with regards to their commitments, but some emphasis as to commitment and responsibility needs to be made when the Wwoofer joins the site to provide them with the conscience to think about their commitment and how to handle an early departure. If they'd given me more notice, that would have been fine. But just to up and leave with a day's warning when you're on a month's placement, that is hard to swallow.

We have just had this experience of a wwoofer announcing to us half an hour ago that he is leaving tomorrow morning to go to another host, he was meant to stay until the 15th of August, it's a bit inconsiderate, I don't mind people wanting to move on but the least they could do is give us more notice, I spend a lot of time emailing people with info etc and trying to 'slot' everyone in so that we don't have too many or too little people at any one time, so its left us with a 'gap', but I guess that this is part of being a host sometimes, you win some you lose some

There seems to be a rush of 'quasi' wwoofers this year who are here only to see Ireland and not to work or communicate or co-operate and blatantly have said that they think wwoofing is a cheap way to travel. This has been very upsetting for me and for other 'proper' wwoofers here. I could go on but it does seem to be a problem this year. I imagine that having a central booking system would be very costly and time consuming and way beyond the remit of woof staff (wonderful and helpful as they are). I'm not quite sure what to do or what the solution is but it certainly is putting me off hosting as I don't want to have hassle or confrontation with strangers in my home. Anyway had to get it off my chest and sad to hear that I am not the only host 'having wwoof problems'.