In [this](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/328577/336163) answer responding to a user asking about why their Very Low Quality (VLQ) flag was declined on a blatantly off-topic question here on Meta.SE, Tinkeringbell ♦ mentions,

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> **The VLQ flag IS NOT appropriate for blatantly off-topic questions here on MSE.**
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> And not only on MSE, but it's inappropriate across the entire network.
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> I've been declining them whenever I see them because people should either flag those posts for closure or cast their close-vote, but NOT flag them as Very Low Quality.
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> From the Usage guide for very low quality link mentioned on the What is flagging from the decline reason: 
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> > You should not use it to describe the following, but should be using close votes, down votes and / or edits instead:
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> > ... Questions that are clearly off topic
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> > If you vote to close a question that doesn't show any code and flag it as very low quality, a moderator is very likely to decline your flag as lacking evidence prior to closing the question anyway.
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This flag, for questions, has been widely contentious over the years (e.g. see [It shouldn’t be possible to flag questions as Very Low Quality](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/195673/336163), [Is the "very low quality" flag necessary?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/104782/336163), and [Is the Very Low Quality flag too ambiguous?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/93595/336163)).

Even after all of this time, it still doesn't seem clear what the VLQ flag for questions is really *for*. Could we have some concrete examples of questions for which, if they appeared on *Meta.SE*, a VLQ flag *would* be appropriate (questions that are so bad that a moderator will not, or at least should not, decline VLQ flags), but where red flags (Spam or Rude) would *not* be appropriate? Appropriately redacted examples of real questions would be great, but if not, it would be very helpful to have some made-up examples of terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad questions that *clearly* qualify as VLQ but do not rise to the level of spam or abuse.

In response to Glorfindel's answer, I'm really looking to find out whether there is a *real-world use case* for the VLQ flag on questions here on MSE, or whether it is just a honeypot trap for the ignorant flagger.