Let's look at two simple cases first.
Charge one plate with $+Q$ and the other with $-Q$. This is the normal case, the one that occurs when you put a capacitor in a circuit. The total charge is $0$. $C = Q/V$, where $Q$ is the size of the charge on each plate.
If you pull electrons off one plate and crowd them onto the other, the electrons repel each other. This leaves + charges behind on the + plate, which also repel each other. It takes potential energy to force the charges together.
In a capacitor, the two plates are close to each other. The charges on opposite plates attract each other, reducing this potential energy. It is easier to separate charges if you have a capacitor in a circuit. It still takes energy, and this affects the voltages and currents in the circuit. This can be useful. This is the purpose of a capacitor.
Instead, let's put $+Q$ one each plate. You have a total of $2Q$. This charge has to come from outside the circuit somewhere. Crowding extra electrons into a circuit takes energy. They repel each other and separate as much as possible. Crowding into two closely spaced plates takes more energy than this. It isn't realistic. This isn't how circuits are used, and isn't what capacitors are for.
The case in your example is a combination of the two. An extra charge is put on the capacitor and a voltage is applied so that some normal capacitor-like separation of charge occurs. It means there may be a $-$ charge on both plates, but it is bigger on one than the other. Again this is unrealistic.
There is a point too it. You have to separate out the two different ways of distributing charge. Separations like this are a common thing in physics.
One way is charges are equal and the same on both plates. The other is equal and opposite. Given $Q_1$ on plate $1$ and $Q_2$ on plate $2$, you can figure out how much charge is distributed each way.
It is a confusing thing to do for capacitors. It makes more sense for forces and torques. See Toppling of a cylinder on a block. You can see that separating forces like this would tell you how about forces that accelerate an object and spin an object.