Replace how we send messages.

[cubiquitous]

currently some of the messages are sent with interaction.channel.send (I can only record of ping using right now). However, due to @emilydta work we found out about interaction.reply that will send a message back replying directly to the one sent. by using interaction.reply we can remove unnecessary things like pinging the user who sent the message via username, such as "hey @username we gave 1point to @anotherUser".

[waream2]

Just to make sure I understand, we're suggesting that we reply directly to the user who called the bot, as opposed to sending a message to the entire server?

[cubiquitous]

nope. .reply() directly replies to the message that the bot is responding to. so if I sent !points, it would respond to that message in that place (channel and server);

[waream2]

Ah okay, I think this makes sense. So it would keep the bots response in scope with the message that prompted it?

[cubiquitous]

yes. if you wanna understand better the difference, try the command "!ping" vs "!points". ping uses channel.send() while points use .reply().

edit: just to be clear, we are already using .reply() in !points and !help

[emilydta]

I changed channel.send() in ping to .reply() so now everything is using that atm.

[cubiquitous]

aight, this issue was open not only for the current ones, but for future reference.i think that we al agree that this way is better in most cases