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# Reply To Interaction With Message

Interaction events in DBS are deferred by default. This is because there is an unknown amount of time that responses will take to execute, and interactions must be replied to or deferred within 3 seconds of their creation. If you are interested in learning more about how this works you can read about it here: <https://discordjs.guide/interactions/replying-to-slash-commands.html#editing-responses>

When the interaction is deferred, the bot will show that it is "thinking":

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In order to have the bot replace this with message content, you will use this node.&#x20;

| Field                     | Description                                                  |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Interaction**           | The interaction object to reply to                           |
| **Response message text** | The message content you want to resolve the interaction with |

As an example- if you used this node to reply to an interaction with the text "Replying to a button click!", it would look like this:

![](/files/-MjuClrcawBD_QnMZO89)


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