refactor: update interaction responses to be deferal if theres db actions

[flaree]

Replaced all commands that have db actions to use deferal, so they wont just drop/int failed if theres any hanging with the db

• Replaced all uses of interaction.response.send_message with interaction.followup.send after deferring responses, ensuring proper handling of ephemeral and long-running interactions across commands in balls/cog.py, guildconfig/cog.py, info/cog.py, and players/cog.py. [

• Added await interaction.response.defer(...) at the start of all relevant command handlers to indicate processing and prevent timeouts for longer operations. This was consistently applied to commands that modify state or might take time, such as favourites, settings, friend/block management, and configuration.

Error Handling and Logging Improvements:

• Improved error handling in countryballs/countryball.py by adding a try/except block to gracefully handle cases where a message to be edited was deleted before completion, preventing uncaught exceptions.

• Enhanced logging for failed ball spawns to include the ball name and channel, making debugging easier.

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Pull request overview

This PR refactors Discord interaction handling across multiple cogs to avoid interaction timeouts by deferring responses before database/long-running work, and then replying via interaction.followup. It also adds a small robustness improvement when editing spawn messages and improves spawn-failure logging context.

Changes:

• Deferred interactions (interaction.response.defer(...)) were added to DB/long-running command handlers, with replies moved to interaction.followup.send(...).
• Trade commands were updated to defer early and consistently use followups for user-facing replies.
• Countryball catching now ignores discord.NotFound when the spawn message was deleted before it could be edited; spawn failure logs now include ball + channel.

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File	Description
ballsdex/packages/trade/cog.py	Defers trade interactions earlier and switches replies to followups to prevent timeouts.
ballsdex/packages/players/cog.py	Adds defers to player-related commands and converts responses to followups for post-defer compatibility.
ballsdex/packages/info/cog.py	Defers info/help commands and replies via followups.
ballsdex/packages/guildconfig/cog.py	Defers config commands and updates responses to use followups.
ballsdex/packages/countryballs/countryball.py	Adds NotFound guard when editing a deleted spawn message; improves spawn failure logging.
ballsdex/packages/balls/cog.py	Defers favorite and updates responses to followups to avoid interaction expiry.

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