Let's face it, the way lj user tags for deleted and suspended accounts are displayed now sucks. So I got bored and coded
a Greasemonkey script to show them in a more obvious manner. (With the script, they're struck through again and have a snazzy new icon. Unfortunately, they still don't link anywhere - that's slightly more difficult.) For Firefox users only.
Now you can know whether someone's referring to a suspended/deleted account or just throwing the bold around once more. Next step: try and get LJ to not be so evil in the first place...