They'll go back to permanent bans shortly. I hope everybody is aware that this is a common lure used by Jagex. Temporary bans to get you to bot on your valuable accounts so they can turn around and remove them from the game.
If temps are back then the %chance of getting banned is up.
When perms were around not many people were actually banned besides the early mass bannings that lasted a week.
people are going to be caught out, mainly those that are noobs at the whole concept of botting and jagex's ways of catching out botters so, i look forward to the large amount of botters that will be removed from the game.
I hope that temporary bans have returned. I've seen a few threads discussing ban rates and the safety of botting recently, making me think that something on the topic has changed. I hope this is true.